Neighborhoods glance

Jerusalem unites Israel
Jerusalem that built as a city that is compact together Psalm 122:3

Neighborhoods of Jerusalem

The first neighborhood established outside the walls of the old city was Mishkenot Shaananim in 1860. Nahalat Shiva was established in1969, followed by Mea Shearim in 1874. In 1886, the Sephardim established Mahaneh Yehouda and Boucharim quarter.

After world war 1 Jerusalem began to expand ,between 1921 and 1927 Rehavia, Talpiot,Beith Hakerem (1921) and Kiriat shmuel were founded.

Following the six days war Jerusalem expanded very much and Ramat Eshkole was built , followed by Neve Yaakov in the North and Gilo in the south- in the direction of Beith lehem.

Rehavia

One of the beautiful Jerusalem neighborhoods .Walking through the area one finds streets named for spharady - poet,rabbie, scholars;

Streets such as Ramban, Ibn Gvirol,Ibn Ezra, Abarbanel, and others.

Rehavia is home to many national institutions: the Jewish Agency, the Jewish national fund, Keren Hayessod, Ben Zvi institutes, The Great synagogue and others.

Rehavia extend from Keren Hayesod and King-George street on the south –east and to nahlaote on the north, Talbiye and Katamon on the south and shaarei Hesed on the west.

The neighborhood established in 1920's on land purchased in 1923 from the Greek Orthodox Church by the Hachsharat-Hayishuv company, which employed the German-Jewish architect Richard Kaufman. Richard Kaufman planned the area as a garden community; the regulation permitted commercial establishments only on two streets at the periphery, to maintain a pastoral character. Those streets/were made narrow to discourage such heavy traffic.

To-day Rehavia is a prestigious and desirable area near to the city's cultural and commercial centers. Rehavia population is secular and religious, young and older elements. Housing ranges from simple to prestigious.

All in a quiet green setting commerce blossoms-coffee shops and restaurants are flourishing.
The neighborhood is agitated, activities of all kinds: new buildings built, almost in every building there is some renovation, new young religious couple coming to live in the neighborhood.

Shaarei hessed

Established in 1909 on an area of 40 dunams maintains its orthodox character.

Shaarei hessed bounded by Nahlaot Rehavia , the Woolf son building and Hagra st. to the north Ussishkin to the east, Ibn shafroute and Haran to the west. Luxurious high-rise apartment buildings and houses have replaced many original houses giving a prestigious character to the area and occupied by Anglophone cutler orthodox.

Well-known synagogues in the neighborhood are Beitknesset Hagra, The old Stiblach Beith-Knesset Khal Hassidim, and beith Knesset zvoul.

Rehavia Katamon borders Talbiyeh in the north on the south, Liberty Bell Park on its eastern side, and on the west by the President Residence, cultural institutions surrounding them, planning and building of Talbiye began in the 1920`s.

Arab families purchase land from the Greek Orthodox Church to build homes for themselves and for rental properties. The neighborhood founded by French and American Christian.
Numerous foreign consulates were set up in Talbiyeh especially in Balfor Street that known as the street of the consulates. By the mid thirties Jewish families began to rent homes in Talbiye in order to be close to the Jewish of Regalia.

In February 1948, the Arab residents began to leave the neighborhood. On 14 May 1948 the day before the end of the British mandates, the security area cancelled; the Arab residents abandoned their homes. Jewish families move into the abandoned houses and gradually the neighborhood became a bourgeois district of academics professional and senior official.

Starting in the sixties open lands such as Dubnov and Pinsker streets built up with private houses, those areas are very attractive because of the openness and the view.

The best know of which is the Sherover villa also in the area of Chopin and Hanassi streets, the Jerusalem Theater, the Islamic art Museum, The Bar Association, the Maalot synagogue, and The Presidents Residence were constructed.

In the 1980`s some of the original residents were replaced by affluent families, English and French religious or traditional immigrants from the U.S.

Several neighborhoods went through a process of gentrification- like the German Colony, Greek Colony, Talbiye, Katamon, and Bakaa.

These neighborhoods have a colorful individual style and high quality of life. The term "Arab House" is a symbol to high quality of life.

New immigrants settled in those Arab building .it was clear the mismatch between the architectural style and the low economic status of the new residents. The attraction to the old style of houses caused a big demand to old private house.

To-day after actualization all the process, the demand is going up, more and more.
If we want to preserve our history our roots we will have to educate and to teach how important and duty is to preserve this architectural like in the whole world.