It’s Holy Week, but Jerusalem’s Old City is quiet and eerily empty

JERUSALEM — The 163-year-old Austrian Pilgrim Hospice in Jerusalem’s Old City urges prospective guests to “please plan well in advance” — 16 months’ notice for groups. On Ash Wednesday, four days before Easter, a call to check if the 124-bed guesthouse had space for a day-of reservation met with a...

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