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| '''Pisgat Ze'ev''' ({{coor dm|31|49|N|35|14|E|}}; {{lang-he|פסגת זאב}}), is the largest neighbourhood in ], with over 45,000 residents. <!--Hebrew wiki says "largest," with 50,000 residents - mtova.org.il/?categoryId=4071 says 45,000, since that's all I could find at a glance, I'm going with over 45k (will revisit and rm this note later)--> Built in 1982 and populated as of 1985, it is situated to the east of the ] neighbourhood of ] and to the south of the Jewish neighbourhood of ], and is otherwise surrounded by the Palestinian neighborhoods of ], ], and ]. | '''Pisgat Ze'ev''' ({{coor dm|31|49|N|35|14|E|}}; {{lang-he|פסגת זאב}}), is the largest neighbourhood in ], with over 45,000 residents. <!--Hebrew wiki says "largest," with 50,000 residents - mtova.org.il/?categoryId=4071 says 45,000, since that's all I could find at a glance, I'm going with over 45k (will revisit and rm this note later)--> Built in 1982 and populated as of 1985, it is situated to the east of the ] neighbourhood of ] and to the south of the Jewish neighbourhood of ], and is otherwise surrounded by the Palestinian neighborhoods of ], ], and ]. | ||
| ==Background== | ==Background== | ||
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Pisgat Ze'ev (31°49′N 35°14′E / 31.817°N 35.233°E / 31.817; 35.233; Template:Lang-he), is the largest neighbourhood in Jerusalem, with over 45,000 residents. Built in 1982 and populated as of 1985, it is situated to the east of the Palestinian neighbourhood of Shuafat and to the south of the Jewish neighbourhood of Neve Yaakov, and is otherwise surrounded by the Palestinian neighborhoods of Beit Hanina, Anatah, and Aram.
Background
The neighbourhood was built to expand the Jewish population in East Jerusalem, and it constitutes a contiguous Jewish area along with Neve Yaakov, which until the establishment of Pisgat Ze'ev, was isolated from other Jewish neighbourhoods. It is named after the Revisionist Zionist leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky.
Construction and expansion
The neighborhood is divided into five sections whose construction followed the original Center (1982), West (1988), East and North (1990), and South (1998). It is connected to the downtown by a direct freeway, Route 60. Because it is located in territory captured by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967 and subsequently annexed (first through the Jerusalem annexation directorate of 1967, then through the Jerusalem Law of 1980), it is widely regarded as an Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem.
West Bank barrier
Since the spring of 2004, construction has been proceeding on the Israeli West Bank barrier dividing this and other Jerusalem neighborhoods from the West Bank. The construction of Pisgat Ze'ev played an important role in the increase of the Jewish population versus Arab and non-Jewish one in East Jerusalem, which in 1990 inhabited 150,000 Arabs and non Jews to 120,000 Jews, and in 1993, inhabited 155,000 Arabs and non Jews to 160,000 Jews.
Street names
Many of the streets in the central section of Pisgat Ze'ev have names of Israeli army units that took part in the 1948 and 1967 wars. Two of them have numbers instead of names ("Street of the Four," "Street of the Sixteen"), memorializing the number of Israeli soldiers who fell in combat in this area during the Israeli War of Independence, the Six-Day War, and other battles for Jerusalem. A memorial listing the names of these soldiers can be found at the Archeological Park in Pisgat Ze'ev-Central.
External link
- Official site
- Jerusalem Photos Portal - Pisgat Ze'ev