WORLD IN BRIEF : ISRAEL : Court Turns Down Settlers’ Appeal

An Israeli court dealt a fresh blow to Jewish settlers who sparked an international dispute when they moved into a hospice in Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter. Israel radio said Jerusalem District Court refused to let the settlers appeal against an interim eviction notice. About 150 Jews moved into the Greek Orthodox-owned St. John’s Hospice in Jerusalem’s Old City on April 11 in the first attempted Jewish settlement in the Christian Quarter since Israel captured it in the 1967 Middle East war. Leaders of Christian communities in the Holy Land protested the settlement as a move to push non-Jews out of the Old City.