File JM-ACJ/N/4 - Relations with the Israeli military authorities.

Pascal Saint-Jean, superior of the Hôtellerie de Notre-Dame-de-France concerning the occupation of the hotel by the Israeli army: active correspondence, June 1948-May 1949 (copies). Agreement between the Consul General of France in Jerusalem and the Commander of the Israeli Troops on the occupation of the east wing of Notre-Dame-de-France by Israeli forces, 28 April 1949 (translation into French of the original).
Damage assessment by Ben Dor and Ben Dor: correspondence, estimates, plans (November 1949).
La Semaine d'Israël, weekly magazine of political and literary news, n°37, 21 December 1955 (copy containing on p.12 an article "Construction of churches in Israel" returning on compensation and war damages).

Religious staff
Arrival of Fr. André Tournellec: information sheet, visa application and residence permit (1966). State of the religious personnel of Notre-Dame-de-France, November 22, 1962. Correspondence with Air France, May 15, 1960.

Settlement and liquidation of the occupation of Notre-Dame-de-France by the Israeli army.
Received by Father Laurent, superior of the Hôtellerie Notre-Dame-de-France, accepting a sum definitively settling the damages suffered by the Hôtellerie, 16 October 1959 (copy).
Establishment of damages: correspondence between the Superior General of the Hôtellerie de Notre-Dame-de-France, the Ministry of Defence, the Consulate General of France, press clippings, certificates, powers of attorney, inventory of the chalices of Notre-Dame de France (1959-1950).
Inscription form of Notre-Dame-de-France as an occupied building, requisition in Hebrew and English, January 30, 1952.
Plan of the provisional cemetery of Notre-Dame-de-France, 1948

Correspondence, 1928-1970.
Handwritten and typed notes with information on the religious communities of the Holy Land, undated; note on the negotiation of the religious of the Blessed Sacrament to establish a foundation next to the Cenacle in 1926-1927, undated.
Events and celebrations in Notre-Dame-de-France: invitations to Masses on August 15 and February 21, Mass sheets, list of recipients of invitations (1928-1970), calendar of Catholic holidays in Israel, undated.
Collection of passive and active general correspondence of the hotel business (room reservations, etc.), 1955; April 1965-July 1967.
Reports and memoirs submitted by the community to the authorities (Minister of Religious Affairs in Israel, Consulate General of France, Governor of Jerusalem, Israeli army): press clippings (1955), memoirs, reports on the war, on the occupation, notes (typescript copies), typescript letters, documentation (handwritten copy of the armistice agreements between Egypt and Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Israel), open letter from the French religious communities in Jerusalem to the French Consul General, statements, minutes (May 1948 - February 1950).
Notes and reports on religious figures (Mgr Georges Hakim, "Archbishop of Galilee", Mgr Mac-Mahon, Mgr Testa): information sheets, letters, reports.
Injury to Brother Laurent caused by the explosion of a mine in Notre-Dame-de-France (26 December 1948-12 April 1949): reports, correspondence.