Pisgat Ze'ev
Pisgat Ze'ev ( Hebrew פסגת זאב, literally Ze'ev's tip ) is a district of Jerusalem with 50,000 inhabitants . It borders in the west and south on the Arab district of Shu'afat , in the east on the likewise Arab villages of Anata and Chizma and in the north on the Jewish district of Neve Ya'akov .
Pisgat Ze'ev was founded to create a largely continuous building area from French Hill to Neve Ya'akov (founded in 1972) and to overcome the previously existing relative isolation of the satellite town of Neve Ya'akov. In terms of urban planning, Pisgat Ze'ev is one of the five so-called ring districts around the previously closed settlement area of Jerusalem.
Located in the north of East Jerusalem , the area of Pisgat Ze'ev belongs to the area of the Palestine region annexed after the Six Day War . The international community also regards the Pisgat Ze'ev area as illegally populated under international law ( UN Security Council Resolution 267 ). Pisgat Ze'ev is therefore regarded as one of the not internationally recognized Israeli settlements in the West Bank and therefore not as a district of Jerusalem. The Israeli government denies this and relies primarily on the Israeli Jerusalem Law of 1980.
Archaeological excavations showed that the region was one of the main producers of wine and oil for the Jerusalem Temple . The settlement was planned on a hill and its slopes known to the Palestinians as Ras a-Tawill (772 meters above sea level). Originally the name should Pisgat Tal loud, finally the name was Pisgat Ze'ev selected, named after the leading Zionists and founder of the Jewish Legion in the First World War , Ze'ev Jabotinsky . For this reason, many streets are named after members of the Israeli army .
The construction of Pisgat Ze'ev began in 1982, and the first families moved here in 1984. With 40 percent of the population under the age of 21, Pisgat Ze'ev is one of the demographically youngest districts. 58 kindergartens, 9 elementary schools, 2 middle schools and 3 high schools are evidence of this. Pisgat Ze'ev consists of five sectors (the first construction completions in brackets): Center (1984), West (1988), East and North (1990), and South (1998). The settlement is connected to downtown Jerusalem by the Route 60 motorway and the light rail system , which has been in operation since August 19, 2011 .
The settlement increased the proportion of the Jewish population in East Jerusalem compared to the Arab-Palestinian population. Between 1990 and 1993, the majority of the Palestinian population, which had existed until then, turned in favor of the Jews: in 1990 150,000 Palestinians and 120,000 Jews lived in East Jerusalem, in 1993 there were 155,000 Palestinians and 160,000 Jews. Israeli barriers were erected here from the spring of 2004 to separate Pisgat Ze'ev and other parts of Jerusalem from the West Bank and to prevent the infiltration of terrorists. One of the results, however, was that a number of Palestinians moved to Pisgat Ze'ev, which until then had a relatively homogeneous Jewish population structure.
Web links
- Neighborhood website (Hebrew)
- Photos from Jerusalem Portal - Pisgat Ze'ev
Individual evidence
- ^ Pisgat Ze'ev. ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. City Council of Jerusalem; Retrieved October 12, 2011
- ↑ Background information on East Jerusalem , website of B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, last accessed on October 12, 2011.
- ↑ Jerusalem barrier prompts Arabs to move across town . Washington Times, May 8, 2006; Retrieved October 12, 2011.
