Russia may gain a piece of Israeli territory. What is known?

"There are certainly chances of transfer, contacts are being maintained. Israel could take this step at a favorable political moment," said the agency's source.

Near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, stands the Aleksandrovskoe Compound. The land for its construction was purchased by Alexander II in 1859, and in 1896 the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society completed the construction of the complex. After the 1917 revolution, disagreements arose regarding ownership rights to this object.

In April 2022, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin sent a written appeal to Naftali Bennett, who then served as Prime Minister of Israel, with an urgent request for a favorable resolution of the question of registration of Russian Federation ownership rights to the Aleksandrovskoe Compound.

The Jerusalem District Court concluded that issues of this nature should be the prerogative of the government, not the judicial authority.