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A room buy canada goose jacket cheap inside a suite is seen at the King David Hotel, in Jerusalem May 15, 2017. Picture taken May 15, 2017. REUTERS/Nir Elias
The canadian goose jacket King David was built in the 1930s by Ezra Mosseri, a wealthy Egyptian Jewish banker, who wanted to create an enduring symbol of luxury in what was then British Mandate canada goose coats on sale Palestine, with the architecture evocative of the region.
Over the years it buy canada goose jacket has hosted heads of state displaced from their homelands, including Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who was driven out by Italian fascist forces, King George II of Greece, who canada goose uk shop fled the Nazis and set up a government in exile from the hotel in the 1940s, and King Alfonso XIII of Spain.
Britain King George V, Prince Charles and Jordan King Hussein have also passed through. presidents, including Richard Nixon, five British prime ministers, including Winston Churchill, Russian President Vladimir Putin and actors and divas from Richard cheap Canada Goose Gere to Elizabeth Taylor canada goose black friday sale and Madonna.
The most dramatic and traumatic moments for the hotel came in the 1940s, when British forces set up their military headquarters there during the mandate of Palestine.
In July 1946, militants from the Jewish Irgun paramilitary group, bent on driving the British out of the region, canada goose bombed the hotel, killing 91 people, including Arab and Jewish staff and 28 British citizens, among them high ranking officers.
Then British Prime Minister Clement Attlee called it insane act of terrorism and Jewish leaders sought to distance themselves from the Irgun. David Ben Gurion, who became Israel first prime minister, called the group enemy of the Jewish people Israel declared independence two years later.
During his stay, Trump will hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and travel to Bethlehem, in the Israeli occupied West Bank, to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He has expressed hope of restarting Middle East peace talks, although the prospects remain dim.
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