Shmuel HaNavi Street
Shmuel HaNavi Street (
Shmuel HaNavi Street borders the
Name
The street is named after
History
Before 1948, Shmuel HaNavi Street lay at the northern edge of Jewish Jerusalem, with the Arab neighborhood of
During the
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 north.[10][11] 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.[6][12] Clergy, diplomats and United Nations personnel used the 50 yards (46 m)[13] gateway to pass through the concrete and barbed wire barrier between the sectors, but Jordanian officials allowed only one-way passage for non-official traffic. Anyone with an Israeli stamp in his or her passport was denied passage.[14]
After the Six-Day War and the
To reinforce its claim on the territory on its side of the 1949 armistice line, in the early 1960s
This housing project, known as Shikun Shmuel HaNavi (Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood), was largely populated by
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.[2] In the 1990s the corner of Shmuel HaNavi and Bar-Ilan Streets was the site of frequent protests to close both streets to traffic on the Jewish Sabbath,[26] a law that was eventually enforced. According to a 1997 appeal by the Ministry of Transportation to the Supreme Court of Israel on the closure, "almost 100% of the residents living in the vicinity of the Shmuel HaNavi and Jeremiah Streets, as far as Shamgar Street, are all religious or Ultra-Orthodox".[27]
1997–99 Jerusalem stabbings
A number of the
In 2004 a suicide bomber dressed as a Haredi Jew boarded a crowded #2 bus on its return route from the Western Wall and detonated himself as it turned the corner to Shmuel HaNavi Street. The bus was filled with Haredi families with small children; 23 were killed and more than 130 wounded.[29]
2014 Jerusalem tractor attack
In 2014 an Arab workman took a tractor from a work site and went on a terror rampage, overturning a bus with the Arab driver inside, killing one person and wounding several.[30][31][32]
In October 2015 an Arab terrorist stabbed and lightly wounded a 16-year-old Jewish teenager on Shmuel Hanavi Street.[33]
Archeological discoveries
Evidence for the presence of the Third Wall of the New City from the time of King
Roman tombs[37] and ossuaries[38] have also been found on Shmuel HaNavi Street. A few hundred meters north of the western end of the street lies the Second Temple-era Tombs of the Sanhedrin in a large park.[39]
In July 2009 archaeologists discovered an ancient quarry on Shmuel HaNavi Street, near the intersection with Yehezkel Street, during new residential construction. The quarter-acre (one-dunam) area was thought to be part of a larger network of quarries extending from Musrara to Sanhedria, from which the giant stones used by King Herod in the construction of the Second Temple (first century BC) were hewn.[40][41]
Cultural institutions
From 1941 to 1947 the street was home to the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo founded by Professor Aharon Shulov of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[42]
Present-day landmarks
Synagogues
- Beis Yosef Tzvi – Dushinsky (headquarters of the Dushinsky Hasidic dynasty[43]
- Sadigura
Boys’ schools
- Talmud Torah Eitz Chaim[44]
- Talmud Torah Ramat HaTorah
- Talmud Torah Kedushat HaTorah – Sadigura
- Talmud Torah Zhvill
Girls’ seminaries
- Bais Yaakov Maalot seminary[45]
- Nachlas Bais Yaakov seminary[46]
- Neve Yisrael Seminary
- Tehillas Bais Yaakov seminary
Yeshivas
- Ahavat Moshe yeshiva and Breslov)
- Beis Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky yeshiva gedola[43][47]
- Chut shel Chessed[48]
- Eitz Chaim yeshiva[44]
- Shaarei Torah Hasidic yeshiva gedola
- Tiferet Tzvi yeshiva
- Yeshivat HaRaayon HaYehudi (Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea), founded by Meir Kahane on Shmuel HaNavi Street in 1989 and relocated to Kfar Tapuachin 2001
- Zhvill yeshiva gedola
Notable residents
- Ben Zion Abba Shaul[49]
- Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky, Second Dushinsky Rebbe[50]
- Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, Third Dushinsky Rebbe[51]
- Sadigura Rebbe
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- ^ Rossoff (2001), p. 554.
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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.
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- ^ Israeli (2002), pp. 95–97.
- ^ Bird (2010), p. 26.
- ^ Bar-Am, Aviva (25 January 2010). "Former Israel / Jordanian border - No man's land". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
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- ^ [1] Man crushed to death in Jerusalem tractor attack, aug. 4, 2014, i24 News.
- ^ [2] Terrorist rams Jerusalem bus, killing one Assailant, who was shot dead by police, was driving a digger; five people were wounded, Jonathan Lis and Ido Efrati, Aug. 4, 2014, Haaretz.
- ^ [3] Pedestrian killed in excavator terror attack in Jerusalem Palestinian driver shot to death by police; 7 victims lightly wounded, Stuart Winer August 4, 2014, times of Israel.
- ^ Dvorim, Tova (9 October 2015). "Stabbing in Jerusalem, One Wounded". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ Wright, George Ernest; Cross, Frank Moore; Campbell, Edward Fay; Filson, Floyd Vivian (1990). The Biblical Archeologist, Volumes 53–54. American Schools of Oriental Research. p. 169.
- ^ Rossoff (2001), p. 555.
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- ^ "A Large Stone Quarry from the End of the Second Temple Period was Exposed on Shmuel HaNavi St. in Jerusalem". Israel Antiquities Authority. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
- ^ Lis, Jonathan (7 July 2009). "Discovered Quarry May Have Supplied Second Temple Stones". Haaretz. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
- ^ Greenbaum, Avraham (August 2006). "The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo". Society of Biblical Literature. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
- ^ a b Rossoff (2001), p. 464.
- ^ a b "VIDEO & PHOTOS: Levayah of HaRav Nissan Aharon Tucazinsky ZATZAL". Yeshiva World News. 11 January 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
- ^ "Beit Yaakov Maalot". Nefesh B'Nefesh. 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
- ^ "Seminaries". Newcomers Guide Israel. 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ^ "בית יוסף צבי דושינסקי" [Beit Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky] (in Hebrew). Olam HaTorah. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ^ "The Breslov Directory". breslov.com. 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
- ISBN 1-57819-056-8.
- ^ Rossoff, Dovid (2005). קדושים אשר בארץ: קברי צדיקים בירושלים ובני ברק [The Holy Ones in the Earth: Graves of Tzaddikim in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak] (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Machon Otzar HaTorah. p. 388.
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