Gilded iconostasis in the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin, Jerusalem, image via Wikipedia
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,137, August 27, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For many years, the Jewish people of Israel have been effectively paying the taxes of the Catholic Church and other churches in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel. It is high time not only for the churches to start paying the taxes they owe the State of Israel but to restore the vast troves of property looted from the Jewish people and stolen from their heritage by the church over a period of centuries.
Pope Paul VI arrived in Jordan on January 4, 1964. The next day he went to Israel to visit Nazareth, Tiberias, and Tel Megiddo, the place where the battle of