Israel’s attorney general Avichai Mandelblit has agreed to give the pro-settler Elad group a foothold at the archaeological park next to the Western Wall of the Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Occupied Jerusalem.
Mandelblit took this decision during a meeting he held last week with government officials according to informed sources.
The sources said Mandelblit affirmed he would offer Elad a foothold at the site but that it would not manage the park exclusively.
The government-affiliated Jewish Quarter Development Company received control over the park two years ago. This company then signed a deal with Elad the settler group that runs the so-called City of David park and promotes Jewish settlement in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan to be responsible for the archaeological park.
The previous attorney general Yehuda Weinstein revoked the deal saying that a private organization should not manage a place located in an area that has political and security sensitivities.
