Har Nof

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Har Nof

Har Nof ( Hebrew הר נוף, German observation mountain ) is a district of Jerusalem on a hill on the western border with over 20,000 inhabitants.

geography

Stairway in Har Nof

Har Nof is a terraced settlement on the flanks of an 813 meter high mountain. Due to the hillside location, many of the multi-storey apartment buildings have two entrances, one for the lower and one for the upper floors on the opposite side. Some of the streets are connected by long staircases. Below the mountain lies the Yaar Jerushalayim, a 1200 km² forest that was planted in the 1950s.

history

In Talmudic times, Har Nof was an agricultural settlement. Remnants of ancient wine presses, farmhouses and wine terraces from 1500 years ago have been excavated on the outskirts of Har Nof. The first houses in modern Har Nof were built in the early 1980s.

Residents

The majority of the residents are Orthodox Jews, Charedim and Dati'im . Many residents have only recently immigrated. There are English, French and Spanish speaking immigrants. Also Hasidim from the Polish cities Góra Kalwaria ( Ger ) and Vyzhnytsia live there, including Sephardim and Mizrahim . The former Sephardic chief rabbi and leader of the Shas party, Rabbi Owadja Josef , also lived in Har Nof.

The clergyman of the Ashkenazi Charedim in Har Nof is Rabbi Moishe Sternbuch (משה שטרנבוך), while the Boston Rabbi Mayer Alter Horowitz (הרב מאיר אלתר הורוביץ) Cleric who is Givat Pinchas (The Boston Shul).

Rabbi Beryl Gershenfeld is the head of the yeshiva Machon Yaakov and Machon Shlomo in Har Nof. Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai Rubin is a clergyman of the Kehilat Bnei Tora.

Synagogues and public institutions

Orot Ha-Tschuwa Study Hall in Har Nof

Har Nof has many synagogues , yeshivot and institutions for the study of the Torah, such as:

  • Central Synagogue Imrei Shefer
  • Heichal Hatorah
  • Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok
  • Machon Shlomo
  • Yeshivat Lev Aharon
  • Machon Yaakov
  • Campus of the Neve Yerushalayim
  • She'arim College of Jewish Studies campus for women and girls

Attack on November 18, 2014

On November 18, 2014, two related Palestinian youths broke into the Kehilat Bnei Torah Synagogue on Shimon Agassi Street during the service. They were armed with axes, knives and pistols and killed four Jews during morning prayers ( shacharit ). Eight other Jews, including two Israeli police officers, were injured. The dead all had dual nationalities; In addition to Israeli, three of those killed were US citizens and one was British. The German Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called the attack a “[…] crossing of borders in an already extremely tense situation […]”. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas immediately condemned the attack. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), on the other hand, took responsibility for the attack, extolling it as "a form of resistance that should be stepped up" and "common resistance to the [Israeli] occupation". The Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri called the act a "heroic act" and spoke of a "natural reaction". The act was revenge for the "execution" of an Arab bus driver who had been found hanged in an omnibus a few days earlier. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would “react with a hard hand to the cruel murder of Jews” and accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of being partly responsible for the attack. He called the attack "the direct result of the agitation by Hamas and Abu Masen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yaar Yerushalayim - the Jerusalem Forest
  2. ↑ Parshat Vayaqhel-P'kudei 5764 - Aloh Na'aleh . ( Memento of February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) ou.org
  3. ↑ Neve Yerushalayim College ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nevey.org
  4. ↑ timesofisrael.com
  5. ↑ a b hairetz.com
  6. ↑ jpost.com
  7. ↑ ynetnews.com
  8. ↑ a b c Attack on synagogue in Jerusalem: attackers kill four praying people , Euronews. 18th November 2014. 
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g Worry about new excesses of violence in the Middle East , Handelsblatt. 18th November 2014. 

Coordinates: 31 ° 47 '  N , 35 ° 10'  E