Christian donation never claimed by J'lem Municipality

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Good ole Evangical Christian values at work!
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Half a million dollars in donations raised by American Christian Evangelical supporters of Israel for Jerusalem's needy has been held up for the past year and a half due to a long-running feud between the head of the charity and the Jerusalem Municipality over a photo-op with the mayor, the city and the organization said Tuesday.

At issue is a $600,000 donation by the Chicago-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews earmarked back in 2003 for the social welfare department of the Jerusalem Municipality.

The organization, which raises tens of millions of dollars each year for Israeli welfare projects, has withheld half a million dollars of the total donation to the city since Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski has refused to take part in a photo-op with the group's president, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, in recognition of the group's donation, Eckstein said in an interview Tuesday.

The group's president had previously said that the dispute was resolved, and that the money had been claimed. But, in a reversal, Eckstein said Tuesday that repeated phone calls, and correspondences with the mayor's office over the photo-op have gone unanswered, leading the group to actually withhold the bulk of the funds.

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