'The Diplomat Hotel was sold to the US'

About 500 elderly immigrants live in the Diplomat Hotel in southeast Jerusalem, where the US Embassy is expected to move.

MK Ksenia Svetlova (Zionist Union), who initiated a discussion on the matter at the Knesset Absorption Committee, said that the American administration recently bought the hotel building.

According to her, there are about 500 elderly immigrants living at the hotel and every four years, they are asked to sign a new lease. "Now they have been informed that the place is being sold to the US government and that in the next two years the site will be evacuated from its tenants. It is fitting that the elderly tenants, who had lived in the capital their entire lives, should receive alternative housing in the city. We must quickly dispel the uncertainty. "