West Jerusalem
West Jerusalem or Western Jerusalem (
History
Pre 1948: the Jewish Colony
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The earliest Jewish settlements outside the city walls were Mea Shearim and Yemin Moshe.
In 1918 William McLean laid out the first civic plan for expansion of Jerusalem westwards and southwards.[5]
By the 1920s the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
Prior to the
“Everyone was swept up, privates and officers alike …. The greed for property encompassed everyone. Every home was scoured and searched, and people found in some cases produce, in others valuable objects. This rapaciousness attacked me as well and I could almost not hold myself back …. It’s hard to imagine the great riches that were found in all the homes …. I got control of myself in time and shackled my desire …. The battalion commander, his deputy, they all failed in this regard.”[10]
After this widespread looting, Israeli institutions managed to gather in around 30,000 books, mostly in Arabic, dealing with Islamic law,
Division in 1949
The
Arabs living in such western Jerusalem neighbourhoods as
The only eastern area of the city that remained in Israeli hands throughout the 19 years of Jordanian rule was
Capital of Israel (1950)
Israel established West Jerusalem as its capital in 1950.
Capture of East Jerusalem (1967)
During the Six-Day War in June 1967, Israel captured the eastern side of the city[21] and the whole West Bank. Over the following years, their control remained tenuous, the international community refusing to recognise their authority and the Israelis themselves not feeling secure.[21]
In 1980, the Israeli government annexed East Jerusalem and
Commercial hubs
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Major commercial centres of Jewish West Jerusalem include: the Downtown Triangle,[23] Mamilla Mall[24][25] and Emek Refaim.[26]
Leisure facilities
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These include Teddy Stadium[27] and Cinema City.[28]
Religious centres
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These include the
Mayors of West Jerusalem
- Dov Yosef (military governor) (1948–1949)[31]
- Daniel Auster (1949–1950)[32][33]
- Yitzhak Kariv (1952–1955)[33][35]
- Gershon Agron (1955–1959)[33][36]
- Mordechai Ish-Shalom (1959–1965)[33][37]
- Teddy Kollek (1965–1993)[33][38]
- Ehud Olmert (1993–2003)[33][39]
- Uri Lupolianski (2003–2008)[33][40]
- Nir Barkat (2008–2018)[41]
- Moshe Lion (2018–present)[42]
See also
- Jerusalem District
- Positions on Jerusalem
Citations
- ^ a b c "Key Maps". Jerusalem: Before 1967 and now. BBC News. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
- ^ a b c Dumper 1997, pp. 35–36.
- ISBN 978-90-411-0077-1.
What, then, is Israel's status in west Jerusalem? Two main answers have been adduced: (a) Israel has sovereignty in this area; and (b) sovereignty lies with the Palestinian people or is suspended.
- ISBN 978-1-136-85098-1.
As we have noted previously the international legal status of Jerusalem is contested and Israel's designation of it as its capital has not been recognized by the international community. However its claims of sovereign rights to the city are stronger with respect to West Jerusalem than with respect to East Jerusalem.
- ^ a b Elisha Efrat and Allen G. Noble, Planning Jerusalem, Geographical Review, Vol. 78, No. 4 (Oct., 1988), pp. 387-404: "Modern planning began only after the British conquest of Palestine in World War I… In 1918 an engineer from Alexandria, William McLean, was commissioned to draft the first city plan… These provisions… caused the city to develop mainly to the west and southwest because of the restrictions on construction in the Old City and its immediate environs and the desire to retain the eastern skyline… McLean wanted Jerusalem to expand to the north, west, and south, with little development to the east because of climatic and topographical limitations. Thus almost from the onset of British colonial rule, development was encouraged in a generally westward direction, and this bias ultimately produced the initial contrasts that distinguished the eastern and western sectors of the city. McLean also adopted the principle of urban dispersal, and he proposed two main axes, one to the northwest and the other to the southwest of the Old City. His guidelines were repeated in most of the subsequent city plans."
- ^ Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia vol. VII: Jerusalem entry includes map with Jewish Colony marked, Amalgamated Press, 1928 edition.
- ^ Amit 2011.
- ^ Dumper 1997, pp. 30–31.
- ISBN 978-0-253-20873-6.
- ^ Benny Morris, 'Was Israeli looting in '48 part of a broader policy to expel Arabs?,' Haaretz 3 June 2021.
- ^ Amit 2011, pp. 7, 9.
- Boston Globe. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ^ S2CID 227257542.
- ^ Dumper 1997, pp. 20–21.
- ^ Landler, Mark (6 December 2017). "Trump Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's Capital and Orders U.S. Embassy to Move". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
- ^ https://archive.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/2717182
- ^ https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Czech-Republic-announces-it-recognizes-West-Jerusalem-as-Israels-capital-517241
- ^ "Australia recognizes west Jerusalem as the capital of Israel". CBS News. 15 December 2018.
- ^ "Australia quietly drops recognition of West Jerusalem as capital of Israel". the Guardian. 17 October 2022.
- ^ Knott, Matthew (17 October 2022). "Australia drops recognition of west Jerusalem as Israeli capital". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ a b Dumper 1997, p. 22.
- ^ .
- ^ "The Jerusalem Triangle". Jerusalem.com. 5 July 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
- ^ "Mamilla Mall: Jerusalem's upscale outdoor shopping mall". The Times of Israel. 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
- ^ "Chabad to Light Up Mamilla Mall". COLLive. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
- ^ Emek Refaim, Israel Inside Out Retrieved June 22, 2023
- ^ "Beitar Jerusalem Official Website".
- ^ Cinema City, iTravel Jerusalem, Retrieved June 22, 2023
- ^ Uzi Baruch (11 December 2009). רב בית הכנסת הגדול בירושלים הלך לעולמו (in Hebrew). IsraelNationalNews. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
- ^ Text of Pope Benedict XVI's Address to Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem
- ^ Archive of Jerusalem's 1949 wartime governor for sale in U.S, Haaretz
- ^ "Summary record of a meeting between the committee on Jerusalem and Mr. Daniel Auster, Mayor of Jerusalem (Jewish sector)".
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Former Mayors of Jerusalem 1948–2008". City of Jerusalem website. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- Baltimore Sun. 4 September 1995. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ISBN 978-1-932687-54-5.
- ^ "Biography: Gershon Agron". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- New York Times. 23 February 1991. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ^ Wilson, Scott (2 January 2007). "Longtime Mayor of Jerusalem Dies at 95". The Washington Post. p. 2. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
- ^ Senyor, Eli (15 April 2010). "Olmert cited as 'senior official' in Holyland affair". Ynetnews.com. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
- ^ Erlanger, Steven (16 July 2005). "An Ultra-Orthodox Mayor in an Unorthodox City". The New York Times.
- ^ "Secularist 'wins Jerusalem vote'". BBC News. 11 November 2008.
- ^ Schneider, Tal (14 November 2018). "Moshe Lion elected Jerusalem Mayor in dramatic finish". Globes. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
Sources
- Amit, Gish (Summer 2011). "Salvage or Plunder? Israel's "Collection" of Private Palestinian Libraries in West Jerusalem". JSTOR 10.1525/jps.2011.xl.4.6.
- Dumper, Michael (1997). The politics of Jerusalem since 1967. ISBN 978-0-231-10640-5.
- Krystall, Nathan (1998). "The De-Arabization of West Jerusalem 1947-50". Journal of Palestine Studies. 27 (2): 5–22. JSTOR 2538281.
External links
- West Jerusalem travel guide from Wikivoyage