Jacir Palace

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Hotel in Bethlehem, Palestine

title: "Jacir Palace" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["buildings-and-structures-completed-in-1910", "buildings-and-structures-in-bethlehem", "hotels-in-palestine", "palaces-in-palestine", "1910-establishments-in-asia", "1910s-establishments-in-british-administered-palestine"] description: "Hotel in Bethlehem, Palestine" topic_path: "geography/united-kingdom" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacir_Palace" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Hotel in Bethlehem, Palestine ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Jacir_palace.JPG" caption="Jacir Palace on Christmas Day 2008"] ::

Jacir Palace or Qasr Jacir () is the largest hotel in Bethlehem in the central West Bank, Palestine. The building's original design was based on typical Palestinian architecture. Jacir Palace has three floors, each spanning 800 sq m. The newly built hotel added an outdoor swimming pool, a health spa, two meeting rooms, 250 rooms, and 11 food and beverage outlets, including restaurants and bars.

Jacir Palace was built in 1910 by local craftsmen on commission of the former mayor of Bethlehem, also a merchant, Suleiman Jacir (great-grandfather of Nasri, Emily, and Annemarie Jacir), who intended that he and his five brothers’ families would live in the mansion together. So they did for a time; however, the family went bankrupt in the 1920s and were forced to sell the palace and its furniture. Jacir Palace was eventually taken over by the British, who used it as a women's prison in the 1940s. In the 1950s it was a private school called al-Ummah. Later, the house became a public boys school, and at a still later stage was transformed into a public girls' school. The house was also used by the Israel Defence Forces as a point of control, particularly during the First Intifada, and continued to be a major point of confrontation between locals and the IDF. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Jacir_Palace_Hotel.jpg" caption="Jacir Palace Hotel"] ::

In 2000, a group of Palestinian investors belonging to PEDCAR — which is linked to the Palestinian National Authority — acquired Jacir Palace; they refurbished and renovated it soon after. Munib il Masri, father of filmmaker Mai Masri, now owns the Palace. However, the hotel was closed down from 2000 to 2005. It closed again in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and remains closed .

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  1. [http://www.zaraholding.com/inter-jacir.htm Hotel International: Jacir] {{Webarchive. link. (2009-01-06 Zara Investment (Holding) Co. Ltd)
  2. link. (2008-07-05))
  3. [http://www.bethlehem.ps/cultural_sites/palaces.php Palaces in the Bethlehem Area]{{Dead link. (January 2020)
  4. [http://www.asiatraveltips.com/news05/129-JacirPalace.shtml Jacir Palace, InterContinental Bethlehem re-opens for business] {{webarchive. link. (December 3, 2013 InterContinental Hotels Group)

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