Given the uncertainties created by the yearlong Palestinian uprising, the show's organizers had reason to wonder whether collectors would regard Jerusalem as a danger zone and refuse to lend their treasures.

While the neighboring West Bank is under military law, East Jerusalem has had a different separate legal status since Israel regards Jerusalem as a united city that is its capital.

Palestinians regard Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine, and the city's borders have been the subject of bilateral talks.

The Vatican has no diplomatic relations with Israel, and disapproves of Israel's insistence on regarding Jerusalem as its capital.

In 1948, Israel regarded Jerusalem outside its territory, but now it claimed souvereinity over Jerusalem except the Holy Places.

The European Union continues to support the internationalisation of Jerusalem in accordance with the 1947 UN Partition Plan and regards Jerusalem as having the status of corpus separatum.

The location and name were chosen deliberately to show that unlike other international groups, its members regard Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.

While often stressing social and community unity between Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains, Savarkar's notions of loyalty to the fatherland are seen as an implicit criticism of Muslims and Christians who regard Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem as their holiest places.

Israel, which annexed East Jerusalem after the 1967 war, regards Jerusalem as a unified city and its capital.