Shmuel HaNavi (neighborhood)
Shmuel HaNavi (
Background
The first home to be erected on what would become known as Shmuel HaNavi Street was the Mandelbaum House, a large, three-story house built by Simcha Torever-Mandelbaum, a Jerusalem textile merchant, in 1927. Mandelbaum chose the location at the eastern end of the street, facing
The 1949 Armistice Agreements put Shmuel HaNavi Street parallel to the Jordanian border, with a no man's land of barbed wire and minefields separating it from Ammunition Hill to the northeast.[9][10] From 1949 to 1967 the official crossing point between Israeli- and Jordanian-held territory stood at the eastern end of Shmuel HaNavi Street at a checkpoint called the Mandelbaum Gate. This checkpoint was named after the destroyed Mandelbaum House, whose ruins lay nearby.[11][12]
New construction
In the 1950s the new state of Israel struggled to absorb large numbers of immigrants, moving them out of temporary tents and huts into permanent apartments. Shmuel HaNavi was one of the neighborhoods built to accommodate these immigrants.[13] Constructed in the early 1960s,[14] it was situated next to the 1949 armistice line that ran parallel to Shmuel HaNavi Street, in order to reinforce the city's hold on its northern border.[9]
Considering the location, the complex of "long train" tenement buildings were built in the manner of fortresses.
The project was largely populated by
Urban protest movement
By the late 1970s, when the population had reached 4,000, a significant number of youth had dropped out of school and organized themselves into
Project Renewal upgrade
In 1968, a year after the
Demography
As the first generation of immigrant children matured and left the neighborhood, their parents followed, and Haredi families from Mea Shearim, Bukharim and Geula took their place. Today the Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood is largely Haredi.[1] The neighborhood has deteriorated over the past number of decades, however, due to the low socioeconomic level of its residents. In 2007, a 3-room apartment was selling for $70,000 to $100,000.[29]
Archaeology
Sanhedrin Park, north of the Shmuel HaNavi-Bar Ilan intersection, contains burial caves from the
Notable residents
- Eliyahu Amedi, a yeshiva student whose 1986 murder sparked five days of anti-Arab rioting in and around the Old City.[33]
- Puah Shteiner, author of Forever My Jerusalem
See also
- Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing
- Nebi Samuel
References
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- ^ "Memories From Ammunition Hill". UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. 16 May 2004. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ^ Regev, Chaya. "The Mandelbaum Gate: Home of the Mandelbaum Family". Yated Ne'eman (Israel-English edition), 5 November 2004, pp. 16–18.
- ^ "Mandelbaum Gate". Eretz Yisrael Museum. 2011. Archived from the original on 17 August 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
- ^ "Housing Projects in Israel". Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. p. 7.
- ^ a b c Kroyanker, David (8 October 2001). "Fence and Defense". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
- ^ Wechsler, Gadi. מעיר חצויה לעיר מאוחדת: משכונת שמואל הנביא להר הצופים [From a Divided City to a Unified City: The Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood to Mount Scopus] (in Hebrew). Yad Ben-Zvi. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
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- ^ Israeli (2002), p. 123.
- ^ Hasson (1993), p. 80.
- ^ רשימת מתנסים [List of Community Centers] (in Hebrew). The Israel Association of Community Centers. Archived from the original on 10 October 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
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- ^ Center for Jewish Community Studies (January 1980). "Project Renewal: An introduction to the issues and actors". Berman Jewish Policy Archive. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
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- ^ Mirovsky, Eric (20 April 2007). משיכון עולים לשכונות יוקרה [From an Immigrant Development to Luxury Neighborhoods]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 19 August 2023. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ "Jerusalem Parks and Gardens". Jerusalempedia. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ "A Large Stone Quarry from the End of the Second Temple Period was Exposed on Shmuel HaNavi St. in Jerusalem". Israel Antiquities Authority. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
- ^ Lis, Jonathan (7 July 2009). "Discovered Quarry May Have Supplied Second Temple Stones". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
- ^ Broder, Jonathan (21 November 1986). "Anti-Arab Rioting Grows In Jerusalem". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
- ^ Lidman, Melanie (1 July 2011). "Hundreds gather over rumors of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef's arrest". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
Bibliography
- Hasson, Shlomo (1993). Urban Social Movements in Jerusalem: The protest of the second generation. SUNY Press. ISBN 0791414280.
- Israeli, Raphael (2002). Jerusalem Divided: The armistice regime, 1947–1967. Routledge. ISBN 0714652660.