A Palestinian official is reportedly trying to buy a Tel Aviv building that was home to a leading Zionist, Israeli media reports said this week. According to the reports, Faisal Husseini, the Palestinian Authority official in charge of Jerusalem affairs, wants to buy the structure, built in 1922 for the family of Menachem Ussishkin, a past president of the Jewish National Fund who opposed the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan on the grounds that all of the land of Israel is holy.
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