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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Siloam_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Siloam (disambiguation)">Siloam (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Siloe" redirects here. For the Spanish architect and sculptor, see <a href="/wiki/Diego_Siloe" title="Diego Siloe">Diego Siloe</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <p class="PIA-flag" style="display:none; visibility:hidden;" title="This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict."></p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SilwanDec102022_10.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/SilwanDec102022_10.jpg/250px-SilwanDec102022_10.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/SilwanDec102022_10.jpg/330px-SilwanDec102022_10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/SilwanDec102022_10.jpg/500px-SilwanDec102022_10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2668" /></a><figcaption>Center of Silwan (2022)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SilwanMar012022_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/SilwanMar012022_03.jpg/250px-SilwanMar012022_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="91" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/SilwanMar012022_03.jpg/330px-SilwanMar012022_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/SilwanMar012022_03.jpg/500px-SilwanMar012022_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="1663" /></a><figcaption>Wide view of Silwan (2022)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SilwanDec102022_08.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/SilwanDec102022_08.jpg/250px-SilwanDec102022_08.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/SilwanDec102022_08.jpg/330px-SilwanDec102022_08.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/SilwanDec102022_08.jpg/500px-SilwanDec102022_08.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2668" /></a><figcaption>Southern part of Silwan (2022)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Silwan_village.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Silwan_village.jpg/220px-Silwan_village.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Silwan_village.jpg/330px-Silwan_village.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Silwan_village.jpg/440px-Silwan_village.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="457" /></a><figcaption>View of Silwan (2008)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Siloe4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Siloe4.jpg/220px-Siloe4.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Siloe4.jpg/330px-Siloe4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Siloe4.jpg/440px-Siloe4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="957" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pool_of_Siloam" title="Pool of Siloam">Pool of Siloam</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Silwan</b> or <b>Siloam</b> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">سلوان</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">Silwan</i></span>; <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Σιλωάμ</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Greek-language romanization"><i lang="el-Latn">Siloam</i></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl">כְּפַר הַשִּׁילוֹחַ</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew" title="Romanization of Hebrew">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn"><i>Kfar ha-Shiloaḥ</i></i></span>) is a predominantly <a href="/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">Palestinian</a> district in <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a>, on the southeastern outskirts of the current <a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Old City of Jerusalem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a> and the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>; in the latter it is the location of Jesus' <a href="/wiki/Healing_the_man_blind_from_birth" title="Healing the man blind from birth">healing the man blind from birth</a>. Medieval Silwan began as a farming village, dating back to the 7th century according to local traditions, while the earliest mention of the village is from the year 985. From the 19th century onwards, the village was slowly being incorporated into Jerusalem until it became an urban neighborhood. </p><p>After the 1948 war, the village <a href="/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Jordanian annexation of the West Bank">came under Jordanian rule</a>. Jordanian rule lasted until the 1967 <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a>, since which it has been <a href="/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Israeli occupation of the West Bank">occupied by Israel</a>. Silwan is administered as part of the <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Municipality" title="Jerusalem Municipality">Jerusalem Municipality</a>. In 2016, <i><a href="/wiki/Haaretz" title="Haaretz">Haaretz</a></i> reported that the Israeli government and the settler organization <a href="/wiki/Ateret_Cohanim" title="Ateret Cohanim">Ateret Cohanim</a> were working together to evict Palestinians living on property classified as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Heqdesh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heqdesh (page does not exist)">heqdesh</a>, especially in the <a href="/wiki/Batn_al-Hawa" title="Batn al-Hawa">Batn al-Hawa</a> area of Silwan.<sup id="cite_ref-Hasson2016_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hasson2016-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Depending on how the neighborhood is defined, the Palestinian residents in Silwan number 20,000 to 50,000 while there are about 500 to 2,800 Jews.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:UN_map_of_Israeli_Inner_Settlement_Ring_around_Jerusalem.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/UN_map_of_Israeli_Inner_Settlement_Ring_around_Jerusalem.jpg/250px-UN_map_of_Israeli_Inner_Settlement_Ring_around_Jerusalem.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="302" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/UN_map_of_Israeli_Inner_Settlement_Ring_around_Jerusalem.jpg/330px-UN_map_of_Israeli_Inner_Settlement_Ring_around_Jerusalem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/UN_map_of_Israeli_Inner_Settlement_Ring_around_Jerusalem.jpg/500px-UN_map_of_Israeli_Inner_Settlement_Ring_around_Jerusalem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1161" data-file-height="1595" /></a><figcaption>UN (<a href="/wiki/OCHAoPt" class="mw-redirect" title="OCHAoPt">OCHAoPt</a>) map of Israeli "inner settlement" ring (red crosses) around Jerusalem. Silwan is south-east of the Old City, flanked by "Beit Hazofe" (בית הצופה, "Observation House") and <a href="/wiki/Ma%27ale_HaZeitim" title="Ma'ale HaZeitim">Ma'ale HaZeitim</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SilwanBoundaries.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/SilwanBoundaries.jpg/250px-SilwanBoundaries.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/SilwanBoundaries.jpg/330px-SilwanBoundaries.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/SilwanBoundaries.jpg/500px-SilwanBoundaries.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1822" /></a><figcaption>The village boundary of Silwan in 1943–1946 is outlined in green. The boundary of Silwan in 2020 according to the Israeli municipal plan of Jerusalem is outlined in blue (note that this area is in East Jerusalem).</figcaption></figure> <p>Silwan is located southwest of the <a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Old City</a> <a href="/wiki/Walls_of_Jerusalem" title="Walls of Jerusalem">Walls</a> and constitutes part of the Jerusalem's "<a href="/wiki/Holy_Basin" title="Holy Basin">Holy Basin</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The neighborhood has a narrow shape on a north-to-south axis. It is bounded by <a href="/wiki/City_of_David_(Silwan)" class="mw-redirect" title="City of David (Silwan)">Wadi Hilweh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abu_Tor" title="Abu Tor">Abu Tor</a> to the west and the <a href="/wiki/Ras_al-Amud" title="Ras al-Amud">Ras al-Amud</a> neighborhood to east. Its southern tip touches the <a href="/wiki/Jabel_Mukaber" title="Jabel Mukaber">Jabel Mukaber</a> neighborhood and its northern tip touches the <a href="/wiki/Mount_of_Olives_Jewish_Cemetery" title="Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery">Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Built on the southern ridge of the <a href="/wiki/Mount_of_Olives" title="Mount of Olives">Mount of Olives</a>, Silwan slopes steeply from approximately 700–600 metres (2,300–2,000 ft) above sea level, until it reaches the <a href="/wiki/Kidron_Valley" title="Kidron Valley">Kidron Valley</a>, which bounds it in the west.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The historical core lies is in the northwestern section, considered to be the site of ancient Jerusalem. Dozens of ancient burial tombs attributed to the time of <a href="/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah" title="History of ancient Israel and Judah">ancient Israel and Judah</a> as well as the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine rule</a> were found there. Arab villagers used the tombs as dwellings or enclosures for livestock. Many of the burial tombs are inhabited until today.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The village was built next to numerous water sources of historical importance, such as the <a href="/wiki/Pool_of_Siloam" title="Pool of Siloam">Pool of Siloam</a> (Ain Silwan), <a href="/wiki/Gihon_Spring" title="Gihon Spring">Gihon Spring</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ein_Rogel" title="Ein Rogel">Ein Rogel</a>. The rest of the village was built in the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iron_Age">Iron Age</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Silwan_necropolis" title="Silwan necropolis">Silwan necropolis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pool_of_Siloam" title="Pool of Siloam">Pool of Siloam</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Stepped_street_(Jerusalem)" title="Stepped street (Jerusalem)">Stepped street (Jerusalem)</a></div> <p>In the ancient period, the area where the village stands was occupied by the <a href="/wiki/Silwan_necropolis" title="Silwan necropolis">necropolis of the Biblical kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin70_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin70-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the valley below, according to the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a>, "the waters of Shiloah go softly" (from the Gihon Spring; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Isaiah%208:6&version=nrsv">Isaiah 8:6</a>) and "the <a href="/wiki/Pool_of_Siloam" title="Pool of Siloam">Pool of Siloam</a>" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Nehemiah%203:15&version=nrsv">Nehemiah 3:15</a>) to water what since <a href="/wiki/King_Solomon" class="mw-redirect" title="King Solomon">King Solomon</a> became known as the king's garden (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+39:4;+52:7&version=NRSV">Jeremiah 39:4; 52:7</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Kings%2025:4&version=nrsv">2 Kings 25:4</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Nehemiah%203:15&version=nrsv">Nehemiah 3:15</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-WPBrown_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WPBrown-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Necropolis" title="Necropolis">necropolis</a>, or ancient cemetery, is an archaeological site of major significance. It contains fifty rock-cut tombs of distinguished calibre, assumed to be the burial places of the highest-ranking officials of the Judean kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tomb inscriptions are in Hebrew.<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the ancient <a href="/wiki/Rock-cut_tombs" class="mw-redirect" title="Rock-cut tombs">rock-cut tombs</a> in Silwan is known as the <a href="/wiki/Monolith_of_Silwan" title="Monolith of Silwan">Tomb of Pharaoh's daughter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another notable tomb, called the <i>Tomb of the Royal Steward</i> is now incorporated into a modern-period house.<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ancient inscription states that it was the final resting place of ""...yahu who is over the house."<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin_12-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first part of the Hebrew name is effaced, but refers to a Judean royal steward or chamberlain.<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin_12-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The inscription is now in the collection of the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin_12-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At their first thorough archaeological investigation, all of the tombs were long since emptied, and their contents removed.<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin_12-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A great deal of destruction was done to the tombs over the centuries by Roman-period quarrying and later by their conversion for use as housing, both by monks in the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine">Byzantine</a> period, when some were used as churches, and later by Muslim villagers "...when the Arab village was built; tombs were destroyed, incorporated in houses or turned into water cisterns and sewage dumps."<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin70_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin70-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a>, Siloam was built around the "<a href="/wiki/Serpent_(symbolism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serpent (symbolism)">serpent</a>-stone", <a href="/wiki/Zoheleth" title="Zoheleth">Zoheleth</a>, where <a href="/wiki/Adonijah" title="Adonijah">Adonijah</a> gave his feast in the time of <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Silwan-inscr.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Silwan-inscr.jpg/250px-Silwan-inscr.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Silwan-inscr.jpg/330px-Silwan-inscr.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Silwan-inscr.jpg/500px-Silwan-inscr.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="681" /></a><figcaption>An inscription from Siloam, known as the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Steward_inscription" title="Royal Steward inscription">Royal Steward inscription</a>, from the lintel of <a href="/wiki/Shebna" title="Shebna">Shebna</a>-yahu's tomb</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Siloam_inscription" title="Siloam inscription">Siloam inscription</a> was discovered in the <a href="/wiki/Siloam_tunnel" title="Siloam tunnel">water tunnel</a> built during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Hezekiah" title="Hezekiah">Hezekiah</a>, in the early 7th century BC. The Siloam inscription is now preserved in the <a href="/wiki/Istanbul_Archaeology_Museums" title="Istanbul Archaeology Museums">Archeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey</a>. Another important inscription found at Siloam is the lintel of <a href="/wiki/Shebna" title="Shebna">Shebna</a>-yahu's tomb (known as the <a href="/wiki/Shebna_Inscription" class="mw-redirect" title="Shebna Inscription">Shebna Inscription</a>), which is in the collections of the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>. In 2004, archaeologists excavating the site for the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Antiquities_Authority" title="Israel Antiquities Authority">Israel Antiquities Authority</a> found biblical-era coins marked with ancient Hebrew writing, pottery shards and a stone bottle cork that confirmed the identification of the site as the biblical Siloam Pool.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman_period">Roman period</h3></div> <p>The King's Garden was used as a staging area for Jewish pilgrims who, during the <a href="/wiki/Three_Pilgrimage_Festivals" title="Three Pilgrimage Festivals">festivals</a> of <a href="/wiki/Passover" title="Passover">Passover</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shavuot" title="Shavuot">Shavuot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sukkot" title="Sukkot">Sukkot</a>, used the spring-fed <a href="/wiki/Pool_of_Siloam" title="Pool of Siloam">Pool of Siloam</a> to wash and ritually purify themselves before ascending the <a href="/wiki/Stepped_street_(Jerusalem)" title="Stepped street (Jerusalem)">monumental stepped street</a> to the Temple Mount while singing hymns based on Psalms. On <a href="/wiki/Sukkot" title="Sukkot">Sukkot</a> water was brought from the Pool of Siloam to the Temple and poured upon the altar<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the priests also drank of this water.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>, the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_Siloam" title="Tower of Siloam">Tower of Siloam</a> is cited by Jesus as one of two examples where sudden, untimely death came to people who didn't necessarily deserve it more than most other sinful people.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">Gospel of John</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jesus healed a man who had been blind from birth. Jesus spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man's eyes. He then told the man, "Go wash yourself in the <a href="/wiki/Pool_of_Siloam" title="Pool of Siloam">Pool of Siloam</a>." So the man went and washed and came back seeing.<sup id="cite_ref-Blind_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blind-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a> described the waters of Siloam as "sweet and abundant".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the general <a href="/wiki/First_Jewish-Roman_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First Jewish-Roman War">outbreak of hostilities</a> between the Jewish nation and the Roman Imperial army in ca. 66 <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">CE</a>, <a href="/wiki/Simon_bar_Giora" title="Simon bar Giora">Simon bar Giora</a> controlled all of the "Upper City" where he made his place of residence in the <a href="/wiki/Phasael_tower" class="mw-redirect" title="Phasael tower">Phasael tower</a> before abandoning it,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and part of the "Lower City" (<a href="/wiki/Acra_(fortress)" title="Acra (fortress)">Acra</a>) as far as the great wall in the Kidron Valley and the <a href="/wiki/Pool_of_Siloam" title="Pool of Siloam">fountain of Siloam</a>, now in Silwan.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Byzantine_period">Byzantine period</h3></div> <p>A pool and church were built at Siloam by the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> empress <a href="/wiki/Aelia_Eudocia" title="Aelia Eudocia">Eudocia</a> (c. 400–460 CE) to commemorate Jesus' miraculous healing of the blind.<sup id="cite_ref-Blind_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blind-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_Muslim_period">Early Muslim period</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map-Jerusalem.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Map-Jerusalem.jpg/250px-Map-Jerusalem.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Map-Jerusalem.jpg/330px-Map-Jerusalem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Map-Jerusalem.jpg/500px-Map-Jerusalem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="758" data-file-height="490" /></a><figcaption>Silwan shown in a 1250CE manuscript of <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Paris" title="Matthew Paris">Matthew Paris</a>' pilgrimage map from <i><a href="/wiki/Chronica_Majora" title="Chronica Majora">Chronica Majora</a></i></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Silwan_-_Deshayes_Louis_Baron_De_Courmenin_-_1631_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Silwan_-_Deshayes_Louis_Baron_De_Courmenin_-_1631_%28cropped%29.jpg/250px-Silwan_-_Deshayes_Louis_Baron_De_Courmenin_-_1631_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Silwan_-_Deshayes_Louis_Baron_De_Courmenin_-_1631_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Silwan_-_Deshayes_Louis_Baron_De_Courmenin_-_1631_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Silwan_-_Deshayes_Louis_Baron_De_Courmenin_-_1631_%28cropped%29.jpg/500px-Silwan_-_Deshayes_Louis_Baron_De_Courmenin_-_1631_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2186" data-file-height="1618" /></a><figcaption>Silwan ("<i>vilage de Siloe</i>") in <a href="/wiki/Louis_Deshayes" title="Louis Deshayes">Louis Deshayes</a>' <i>Voyage du Levant, fait par le commandement du roi en 1621</i></figcaption></figure> <p>Local folklore dates Silwan to the arrival of the second <a href="/wiki/Rashidun_Caliphate" title="Rashidun Caliphate">Rashidun</a> caliph, <a href="/wiki/Umar" title="Umar">Umar</a> ibn al-Khattab from <a href="/wiki/Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia">Arabia</a>. According to one resident's version of the story, the Greeks were so impressed that the Caliph entered on foot while his servant rode on a camel that they presented him with the key to the city. The Caliph thereafter granted the wadi to "Khan Silowna," an agricultural community of cave dwellers living in ancient <a href="/wiki/Silwan_necropolis" title="Silwan necropolis">rock-cut tombs</a> along the face of the eastern ridge.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated2_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In medieval Muslim tradition, the spring of Silwan (Ayn Silwan) was among the four most <a href="/wiki/Sacred_waters" title="Sacred waters">sacred water</a> sources in the world. The others were <a href="/wiki/Zamzam_Well" title="Zamzam Well">Zamzam</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a>, Ayn Falus in <a href="/wiki/Beisan" class="mw-redirect" title="Beisan">Beisan</a> and Ayn al-Baqar in <a href="/wiki/Acre,_Israel" title="Acre, Israel">Acre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Silwan is mentioned as "Sulwan" by the 10th-century <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> writer and traveller <a href="/wiki/Al-Muqaddasi" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Muqaddasi">al-Muqaddasi</a>. In his 985 book he noted that (as rendered in the edition by <a href="/wiki/Guy_Le_Strange" title="Guy Le Strange">Le Strange</a>) "The village of Sulwan is a place on the outskirts of the city [Jerusalem]. Below the village of 'Ain Sulwan (Spring of Siloam), of fairly good water, which irrigates the large gardens which were given in bequest (<i><a href="/wiki/Waqf" title="Waqf">Waqf</a></i>) by the Khalif <a href="/wiki/Uthman_Ibn_Affan" class="mw-redirect" title="Uthman Ibn Affan">'Othman ibn 'Affan</a> for the poor of the city. Lower down than this, again, is Job's Well (Bir Ayyub). It is said that on the Night of 'Arafat the water of the holy well <a href="/wiki/Zamzam_Well" title="Zamzam Well">Zamzam</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Makkah</a>, comes underground to the water of the Spring (of Siloam). The people hold a festival here on that evening."<sup id="cite_ref-LeStrange_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeStrange-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Moshe_Gil" title="Moshe Gil">Moshe Gil</a> interprets statements by Muqaddasi (writing in 985), <a href="/wiki/Nasir_Khusraw" title="Nasir Khusraw">Nasir-i Khusraw</a> (1047), and <a href="/wiki/Yaqut_al-Hamawi" title="Yaqut al-Hamawi">Yaqut</a> (1225), as meaning that what they called the Spring of Silwan can only be a water source located at quite a distance farther south, Khusraw actually indicating a distance of c. 3 km from Jerusalem's walls.<sup id="cite_ref-Gil_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gil-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This leads to Gil identifying this "Spring of Silwan" with what we know today as the Spring of Bir Ayyub (biblical <a href="/wiki/Ein_Rogel" title="Ein Rogel">Ein Rogel</a>), whose exact location in those days cannot be pinpointed anymore, but was in any case several km away from the city walls.<sup id="cite_ref-Gil_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gil-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ottoman_period">Ottoman period</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Silwan_in_the_1865_Ordnance_Survey_of_Jerusalem_Old_City_full_map_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Silwan_in_the_1865_Ordnance_Survey_of_Jerusalem_Old_City_full_map_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Silwan_in_the_1865_Ordnance_Survey_of_Jerusalem_Old_City_full_map_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="360" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Silwan_in_the_1865_Ordnance_Survey_of_Jerusalem_Old_City_full_map_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Silwan_in_the_1865_Ordnance_Survey_of_Jerusalem_Old_City_full_map_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Silwan_in_the_1865_Ordnance_Survey_of_Jerusalem_Old_City_full_map_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Silwan_in_the_1865_Ordnance_Survey_of_Jerusalem_Old_City_full_map_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1973" data-file-height="3231" /></a><figcaption>Silwan in the 1865 <a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_of_Jerusalem" title="Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem">Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SilwanOrdnanceSurvey1865.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/SilwanOrdnanceSurvey1865.jpg/220px-SilwanOrdnanceSurvey1865.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/SilwanOrdnanceSurvey1865.jpg/330px-SilwanOrdnanceSurvey1865.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/SilwanOrdnanceSurvey1865.jpg/440px-SilwanOrdnanceSurvey1865.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1068" /></a><figcaption>View of Silwan from the south, ca. 1864</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ARAB_MEN_IN_JERUSALEM_ENGAGED_IN_A_FRIENDLY_CONVERSATION.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/ARAB_MEN_IN_JERUSALEM_ENGAGED_IN_A_FRIENDLY_CONVERSATION.jpg/250px-ARAB_MEN_IN_JERUSALEM_ENGAGED_IN_A_FRIENDLY_CONVERSATION.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/ARAB_MEN_IN_JERUSALEM_ENGAGED_IN_A_FRIENDLY_CONVERSATION.jpg/330px-ARAB_MEN_IN_JERUSALEM_ENGAGED_IN_A_FRIENDLY_CONVERSATION.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/ARAB_MEN_IN_JERUSALEM_ENGAGED_IN_A_FRIENDLY_CONVERSATION.jpg/500px-ARAB_MEN_IN_JERUSALEM_ENGAGED_IN_A_FRIENDLY_CONVERSATION.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2394" data-file-height="2037" /></a><figcaption>Men from Silwan, by <a href="/wiki/Felix_Bonfils" class="mw-redirect" title="Felix Bonfils">Maison Bonfils</a>, ca. 1890</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ARAB_WOMEN_IN_JERUSALEM_CARRYING_CONTAINERS_FILLED_WITH_LABANEH.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/ARAB_WOMEN_IN_JERUSALEM_CARRYING_CONTAINERS_FILLED_WITH_LABANEH.jpg/250px-ARAB_WOMEN_IN_JERUSALEM_CARRYING_CONTAINERS_FILLED_WITH_LABANEH.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/ARAB_WOMEN_IN_JERUSALEM_CARRYING_CONTAINERS_FILLED_WITH_LABANEH.jpg/330px-ARAB_WOMEN_IN_JERUSALEM_CARRYING_CONTAINERS_FILLED_WITH_LABANEH.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/ARAB_WOMEN_IN_JERUSALEM_CARRYING_CONTAINERS_FILLED_WITH_LABANEH.jpg/500px-ARAB_WOMEN_IN_JERUSALEM_CARRYING_CONTAINERS_FILLED_WITH_LABANEH.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="2401" /></a><figcaption>Women from Silwan, carrying containers filled with <a href="/wiki/Labneh" class="mw-redirect" title="Labneh">labneh</a>, by <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Bonfils" class="mw-redirect" title="Félix Bonfils">Bonfils</a>, ca. 1890</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1596, Ayn Silwan appeared in <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> <a href="/wiki/Defter" title="Defter">tax registers</a> as being in the <i><a href="/wiki/Nahiya" class="mw-redirect" title="Nahiya">Nahiya</a></i> of Quds of the <i><a href="/wiki/Liwa_(Arabic)" title="Liwa (Arabic)">Liwa</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Al-Quds" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Quds">Quds</a>, with a population of 60 households, all <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a>. They paid a total of 35,500 <a href="/wiki/Ak%C3%A7e" title="Akçe">akçe</a> in taxes, and all of the revenues went to a <a href="/wiki/Waqf" title="Waqf">Waqf</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1834, during a large-scale <a href="/wiki/Peasants%27_revolt_in_Palestine" title="Peasants' revolt in Palestine">peasants' rebellion</a> against <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Pasha_of_Egypt" title="Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt">Ibrahim Pasha</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> thousands of rebels infiltrated Jerusalem through ancient underground sewage channels leading to the farm fields of the village of Silwan.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A traveller to Palestine in 1883, T. Skinner, wrote that the olive groves near Silwan were a gathering place for Muslims on Fridays.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1838 Silwan was noted as a Muslim village, part of <i>el-Wadiyeh</i> district, located east of Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A photograph of the village taken between 1853 and 1857 by <a href="/wiki/James_Graham_(photographer)" title="James Graham (photographer)">James Graham</a> can be found on page 35 of <i>Picturing Jerusalem</i> by photographers James Graham and <a href="/wiki/Mendel_Diness" title="Mendel Diness">Mendel Diness</a>. It shows the western part of the modern village as empty of habitations, a few trees are scattered across the southern ridge with the small village confined to the ridgetop east of the valley.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mid-1850s, the villagers of Silwan were paid £100 annually by the Jews in an effort to prevent the desecration of graves on the Mount of Olives.<sup id="cite_ref-Har-El2004_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Har-El2004-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nineteenth-century travellers described the village as a robbers' lair.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Charles_William_Wilson" title="Charles William Wilson">Charles Wilson</a> wrote that "the houses and the streets of Siloam, if such they may be called, are filthy in the extreme." Charles Warren depicted the population as a lawless set, credited with being "the most unscrupulous ruffians in Palestine."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An official Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that Silwan had a total of 92 houses and a population of 240, though the population count included only men.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1883, the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Exploration_Fund" title="Palestine Exploration Fund">Palestine Exploration Fund</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/PEF_Survey_of_Palestine" title="PEF Survey of Palestine">Survey of Western Palestine</a></i> (SWP) described Silwan as a "village perched on a precipice and badly built of stone. The waters is brought from Ain Umm ed Deraj. There are numerous caves among and behind the houses, which are used as stables by the inhabitants."<sup id="cite_ref-SWP30_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SWP30-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Modern settlement of the western ridge of the modern urban neighborhood of Silwan, called <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Wadi Hilweh</i></span> in Arabic and dubbed in 1920 "the City of David" by Jewish-French archaeologist <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Weill" class="extiw" title="de:Raymond Weill">de:Raymond Weill</a> (1874–1950),<sup id="cite_ref-PullanSternberg2013_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PullanSternberg2013-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> began in 1873–1874, when the <a href="/wiki/Meyuchas" title="Meyuchas">Meyuchas</a> family moved out of the <a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Old City</a> to a new home on the ridge.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In books published between 1888 and 1911, travellers describe the valley floor as verdant and cultivated,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the stony village perched along the top of the eastern ridge hillside.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Explorer <a href="/wiki/Gustaf_Dalman" title="Gustaf Dalman">Gustaf Dalman</a> (1855–1941) describes the manner in which the villagers of Silwan irrigated their vegetable crop which they planted on terraces.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The village of Silwan was located on the eastern slope of the <a href="/wiki/Kidron_Valley" title="Kidron Valley">Kidron Valley</a>, above the outlet of the <a href="/wiki/Gihon_Spring" title="Gihon Spring">Gihon Spring</a> opposite Wadi Hilweh. The villagers cultivated the arable land in the Kidron Valley, which in biblical tradition formed the king's gardens during the Davidic dynasty,<sup id="cite_ref-WPBrown_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WPBrown-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to grow vegetables for market in Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1885 and 1891, 45 new stone houses were built for a Yemenite Jewish community in what is now the <a href="/wiki/Batn_al-Hawa" title="Batn al-Hawa">Batn al-Hawa</a> area of Silwan.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The neighbourhood included a place of worship now known as the <a href="/wiki/Old_Yemenite_Synagogue" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Yemenite Synagogue">Old Yemenite Synagogue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Man_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Man-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1896 the population of Silwan was estimated to be about 939 persons.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="British_Mandate">British Mandate</h3></div> <p>At the time of the <a href="/wiki/1922_census_of_Palestine" title="1922 census of Palestine">1922 census of Palestine</a>, "Selwan (Kfar Hashiloah)" had a population of 1,901 persons; 1,699 Muslims, 153 Jews and 49 Christians,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where the Christians were 16 Roman Catholics and 33 Syrian Catholics.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same year, Baron <a href="/wiki/Edmond_de_Rothschild" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmond de Rothschild">Edmond de Rothschild</a> bought several acres of land there and transferred it to the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Jewish_Colonization_Association" title="Palestine Jewish Colonization Association">Palestine Jewish Colonization Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AmericaDept1997_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AmericaDept1997-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time of the <a href="/wiki/1931_census_of_Palestine" title="1931 census of Palestine">1931 census</a>, Silwan had 630 occupied houses and a population of 2968; 2,553 Muslims, 124 Jews and 91 Christians (the last including the Latin, Greek and St. Stephens convents).<sup id="cite_ref-Census1931_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Census1931-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/1936%E2%80%9339_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine">1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine</a>, the Yemenite community was removed from Silwan by the Welfare Bureau of the <a href="/wiki/Va%27ad_Leumi" class="mw-redirect" title="Va'ad Leumi">Va'ad Leumi</a> into the Jewish Quarter as security conditions for Jews worsened,<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1938, the remaining <a href="/wiki/Yemenite_Jews" title="Yemenite Jews">Yemenite Jews</a> in Silwan were evacuated by the Jewish Community Council on the advice of the police.<sup id="cite_ref-Shragai_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shragai-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to documents in the custodian office and real estate and project advancement expert Edmund Levy, the homes of the Yemenite Jews were occupied by Arab families without registering ownership.<sup id="cite_ref-1930riot_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1930riot-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jpost1930_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpost1930-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D7%9B%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97_-_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%94-JNF001503.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/%D7%9B%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97_-_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%94-JNF001503.jpeg/250px-%D7%9B%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97_-_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%94-JNF001503.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/%D7%9B%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97_-_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%94-JNF001503.jpeg/330px-%D7%9B%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97_-_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%94-JNF001503.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/%D7%9B%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97_-_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%94-JNF001503.jpeg/500px-%D7%9B%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97_-_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%94-JNF001503.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="567" data-file-height="567" /></a><figcaption>Silwan 1945</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Silwan_1948.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Silwan_1948.jpg/250px-Silwan_1948.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Silwan_1948.jpg/330px-Silwan_1948.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Silwan_1948.jpg/500px-Silwan_1948.jpg 2x" data-file-width="721" data-file-height="495" /></a><figcaption>Silwan 1948</figcaption></figure> <p>The British Mandatory government began annexing parts of Silwan to the Jerusalem Municipality, a process completed by the final Jordanian annexation of remaining Silwan in 1952. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:View_to_Silwan_and_Wall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/View_to_Silwan_and_Wall.jpg/250px-View_to_Silwan_and_Wall.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/View_to_Silwan_and_Wall.jpg/330px-View_to_Silwan_and_Wall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/View_to_Silwan_and_Wall.jpg/500px-View_to_Silwan_and_Wall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="540" /></a><figcaption>Silwan from <a href="/wiki/Abu_Tor" title="Abu Tor">Abu Tor</a>, in 2005, looking towards the <a href="/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli West Bank barrier">Israeli West Bank barrier</a> near the Old City</figcaption></figure> <p>In the twentieth century, Silwan grew northward towards Jerusalem, expanding from a small farming village into an urban neighborhood. Modern Arab Silwan encompasses Old Silwan (generally to the south), the Yemenite village (to the north), and the once-vacant land between. Today Silwan follows the ridge of the southern peak of the <a href="/wiki/Mount_of_Olives" title="Mount of Olives">Mount of Olives</a> to the east of the Kidron Valley, from the <a href="/wiki/City_of_David_(Silwan)" class="mw-redirect" title="City of David (Silwan)">ridge west</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ophel" title="Ophel">Ophel</a> up to the <a href="/wiki/Southern_wall" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern wall">southern wall</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Temple_Mount" title="Temple Mount">Temple Mount</a>/<a href="/wiki/Haram_al-Sharif" class="mw-redirect" title="Haram al-Sharif">Haram al-Sharif</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Village_Statistics,_1945" title="Village Statistics, 1945">1945 statistics</a> the population of Silwan was 3,820; 3,680 Muslims and 140 Christians,<sup id="cite_ref-1945p25_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1945p25-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with a total of 5,421 <a href="/wiki/Dunam" title="Dunam">dunams</a> of land according to an official land and population survey.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of this, Arabs used 58 dunams for plantations and irrigable land and 2,498 for cereals, while Jews used 51 for cereals.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A total of 172 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) land.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jordanian_period">Jordanian period</h3></div> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a>, Silwan came <a href="/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Jordanian annexation of the West Bank">under Jordanian administration</a> along with the rest of the West Bank, and land there owned by Jews was managed by the Jordanian <a href="/wiki/Custodian_of_Enemy_Property" title="Custodian of Enemy Property">Custodian of Enemy Property</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Fischbach_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fischbach-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It remained under Jordanian rule until 1967, when Israel captured the Old City and surrounding region. Until then, the village had delegates in the Jerusalem City Council. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Displacement_of_Palestinians">Displacement of Palestinians</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_displacement_in_East_Jerusalem" title="Palestinian displacement in East Jerusalem">Palestinian displacement in East Jerusalem</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Israeli_settlements_and_archaeological_excavavations_in_Silwan,_East_Jerusalem.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Israeli_settlements_and_archaeological_excavavations_in_Silwan%2C_East_Jerusalem.jpg/250px-Israeli_settlements_and_archaeological_excavavations_in_Silwan%2C_East_Jerusalem.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Israeli_settlements_and_archaeological_excavavations_in_Silwan%2C_East_Jerusalem.jpg/330px-Israeli_settlements_and_archaeological_excavavations_in_Silwan%2C_East_Jerusalem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Israeli_settlements_and_archaeological_excavavations_in_Silwan%2C_East_Jerusalem.jpg/500px-Israeli_settlements_and_archaeological_excavavations_in_Silwan%2C_East_Jerusalem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="623" data-file-height="882" /></a><figcaption>Locations of archaeological digs in SIlwan</figcaption></figure> <p>Since the 1967 <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a> Silwan has been under <a href="/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Israeli occupation of the West Bank">Israeli occupation</a>, and Jewish organizations have sought to re-establish a Jewish presence there. The <a href="/wiki/Ir_David_Foundation" title="Ir David Foundation">Ir David Foundation</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Ateret_Cohanim" title="Ateret Cohanim">Ateret Cohanim</a> organizations are promoting resettlement of Jews in the neighborhood in cooperation with the Committee for the Renewal of the Yemenite Village in Shiloah.<sup id="cite_ref-Bronner_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bronner-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1987, the Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations wrote to the Secretary-General to inform him of Israeli settlement activity; his letter noted that an Israeli company had taken over two Palestinian houses in the neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Garden_(Silwan)" class="mw-redirect" title="King's Garden (Silwan)">al-Bustan</a>, after evicting their occupants, claiming the houses were its property.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/City_of_David_(Silwan)" class="mw-redirect" title="City of David (Silwan)">Wadi Hilweh</a>, an area of Silwan close to the southern wall of the Old City, and its neighborhood of al-Bustan, has been ever since a focus of Jewish settlement. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Jewish_settlements">Jewish settlements</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:OCHAoPT_map_of_evictions_in_East_Jerusalem_as_at_2016.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/OCHAoPT_map_of_evictions_in_East_Jerusalem_as_at_2016.pdf/page1-220px-OCHAoPT_map_of_evictions_in_East_Jerusalem_as_at_2016.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/OCHAoPT_map_of_evictions_in_East_Jerusalem_as_at_2016.pdf/page1-330px-OCHAoPT_map_of_evictions_in_East_Jerusalem_as_at_2016.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/OCHAoPT_map_of_evictions_in_East_Jerusalem_as_at_2016.pdf/page1-440px-OCHAoPT_map_of_evictions_in_East_Jerusalem_as_at_2016.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1827" data-file-height="1239" /></a><figcaption>Silwan in the OCHAoPT map of evictions in East Jerusalem as at 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1991, a movement was formed to promote Jewish settlement in Silwan.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some Silwan properties had already been declared <a href="/wiki/Israeli_land_and_property_laws" title="Israeli land and property laws">absentee property</a> in the 1980s, and suspicions arose that a number of claims filed by Jewish organizations had been accepted by the Custodian without any site visits or follow-up.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Property in Silwan has been purchased by Jews through indirect sales, some by invoking the <a href="/wiki/Israeli_land_and_property_laws#The_.27Absentees_Property_Law.27" title="Israeli land and property laws">Absentee Property Law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Joel_Greenburg_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joel_Greenburg-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In other cases, the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_National_Fund" title="Jewish National Fund">Jewish National Fund</a> signed protected tenant agreements that enabled construction to proceed without a tender process.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2004, more than 50 Jewish families live in the area,<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> some in homes acquired from Arabs who claim they did not know they were selling their homes to Jews,<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> some in <a href="/wiki/Beit_Yonatan" title="Beit Yonatan">Beit Yonatan</a>. </p><p>In 2003, Ateret Cohanim built a seven-storey apartment building known as Beit Yonatan (named for <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard" title="Jonathan Pollard">Jonathan Pollard</a>) without a permit. In 2007, the courts ordered the eviction of the residents,<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the building was approved retroactively.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2008 a plan was submitted for a building complex including a synagogue, 10 apartments, a kindergarten, a library and underground parking for 100 cars in a location 200 meters from the Old City walls.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, which changed its name to <a href="/wiki/T%27ruah" title="T'ruah">T'ruah</a> in 2012, accused Elad of creating a "method of expelling citizens from their properties, appropriating public areas, enclosing these lands with fences and guards, and banning the entrance of the local residents...under the protection of a private security force."<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Approximately 1,500 supporters of RHR-NA/T'ruah wrote to Russell Robinson,<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CEO of JNF-US, to demand an end to the eviction of a Silwan family. Overnight on September 30, 2014, at 1:30 am, settlers, supported by police officers and reportedly connected to the <a href="/wiki/Ir_David_Foundation" title="Ir David Foundation">Ir David Foundation</a>, commonly known as Elad, entered 25 houses in 7 buildings<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which previously belonged to several Palestinian families in the neighborhood, in what was the largest Israeli purchase of homes in Silwan since 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-Ynet50_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ynet50-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most were vacant, but in one house where a family was evicted a confrontation broke out. Details concerning the process whereby the properties were purchased are lacking, but Palestinian middle men appear to be involved,<sup id="cite_ref-Hasson_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hasson-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> buying the six houses, and then selling them to a private American company, Kendall Finance. Elad stated that the houses had been bought properly and legally. Advertisements were posted on Facebook offering Jewish ex-army veterans $140 a day to sit in the properties until families move in.<sup id="cite_ref-Estrin_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Estrin-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As those who <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_land_laws" title="Palestinian land laws">sell land</a> to Israelis may be sentenced to death by the PA, the son of one Palestinian family who sold his property has fled Jerusalem, in fear for his life.<sup id="cite_ref-Ynet50_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ynet50-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the Palestinian families claiming ownership intended to get the settlers out by taking legal steps.<sup id="cite_ref-Hasson_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hasson-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In response to this move, on October 2, 2014, the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> condemned settlement expansion in Silwan.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> White House spokesman <a href="/wiki/Josh_Earnest" title="Josh Earnest">Josh Earnest</a>, in a condemnation of the takeover, described the new occupants as "individuals who are associated with an organization whose agenda, by definition, stokes tensions between Israelis and Palestinians." Israeli prime minister <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> was "baffled" by US criticism, deeming it "un-American" to criticize the legal purchase of homes in East Jerusalem to either Jews or Arabs.<sup id="cite_ref-Estrin_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Estrin-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 15, 2016, Jerusalem's City Hall approved the construction of a three-storey residential house for Jews wishing to make Silwan their home.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A ruling handed down by the Jerusalem Magistrats Court in January 2020 gave a substantial boost to efforts by the settler organization <a href="/wiki/Ateret_Cohanim" title="Ateret Cohanim">Ateret Cohanim</a> to evict large numbers of Palestinians in Silwan from their homes. The organization managed to take over control of an Ottoman era (19th century) Jewish trust, called the Benvenisti Trust after Rabbi Moshe Benvenisti, and claims that land in areas of Silwan, such as the Batan al-Hawa neighborhood, was 'sacred religious land' and that Palestinians residing on this trust land were illegal squatters. The decisions are thought to effectively threaten with displacement some 700 Palestinians in Silwan.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Sumreen_(or_Sumarin)_family"><span id="The_Sumreen_.28or_Sumarin.29_family"></span>The Sumreen (or Sumarin) family</h4></div> <p>The house where the family lives is in the middle of an area designated by Israel as "the City of David National Park."<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where a right-wing, pro-settler organization, <a href="/wiki/Elad" class="mw-redirect" title="Elad">Elad</a>, runs an archaeological and biblical theme park known as <a href="/wiki/City_of_David_(Silwan)" class="mw-redirect" title="City of David (Silwan)">City of David</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Judgement_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Judgement-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2011, a board member of the Jewish National Fund's US fundraising arm resigned in protest after a 20-year legal process came to a head with an order for the eviction of a Palestinian family from a JNF-owned home. The home had been acquired via the Absentee Property Law.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several days before the order was carried out, JNF announced it would be delayed.<sup id="cite_ref-delay_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-delay-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011 the verdict was overturned. In 2017, the claim was successfully renewed. In September 2019, the Sumreen family lost an appeal and appealed to the District Court. In June 2020, the appeal was rejected.<sup id="cite_ref-Judgement_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Judgement-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After criticism from many directions the JNF has asked for a rehearing of the proceedings. In August, the eviction process was suspended. JNF and Elad are in disagreement over the process.<sup id="cite_ref-Backtrack_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Backtrack-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JNFElad_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JNFElad-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 January 2022, following receipt of an opinion stating "there is no objection to the expulsion" from Israeli Attorney General <a href="/wiki/Avichai_Mandelblit" title="Avichai Mandelblit">Avichai Mandelblit</a>, a decision by the Supreme Court is awaited.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 3 April 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against eviction and that the JNF's subsidiary Heimanuta must pay compensation of 20,000 shekels ($5,560).<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Housing_demolition_and_construction_permits">Housing demolition and construction permits</h4></div> <p>In 2005, the Israeli government planned to demolish 88 Arab homes in al-Bustan neighborhood built without permits<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but they were not found illegal in a municipal court.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated3_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the State Comptroller's report, there were 130 illegal structures in Silwan in 2009, a tenfold increase since 1967. When enforcement of the building code began in al-Bustan in 1995, thirty illegal structures were found, mostly old residential buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-jpost.com_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpost.com-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 2004, the number of illegal structures rose to 80. The municipality launched legal proceedings against 43 and demolished 10, but these were soon replaced by new buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-jpost.com_103-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpost.com-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The group <a href="/wiki/Ir_Amim" title="Ir Amim">Ir Amim</a> argues that the illegal construction is due to insufficient granting of permits by the Jerusalem municipality. They say that under Israeli administration, fewer than 20 permits, mainly minor, were issued for this part of Silwan, and that as a result, most building in this part of Silwan and the whole neighborhood generally lack permits.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They also say that as of 2009, the vast majority of buildings in the neighborhood were built without permits, in particular in al-Bustan.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, Ir Amim's petition to halt a municipal zoning plan for the City of David area was rejected. The plan does not call for demolition of illegal construction, but rather regulates where construction may continue. The group said that the plan favored the interests of Elad and the neighborhood's Jewish residents, while Elad said that the plan allotted only 15 percent of construction to Jews versus 85 percent to Arab residents. The <a href="/wiki/Mukhtar" title="Mukhtar">mukhtar</a> of Silwan objected to Ir Amim's petition against the plan. "We have said that there are good aspects of the plan and there are bad aspects of the plan, we're still working it all out. But to come and say that the whole plan is bad, and to ask that it be done away with, then what have you accomplished? Nothing."<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Torching_of_olive_trees">Torching of olive trees</h4></div> <p>In May 2010, a group of Israeli settlers torched "an 11-Dunam olive orchard in al-Rababa valley, in Silwan, south of the Old City of Jerusalem" which included the destruction of three olive trees that were over 300 years old.<sup id="cite_ref-IMEMC_2010_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMEMC_2010-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2011 <a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a> article, these attacks were called <a href="/wiki/List_of_Israeli_price_tag_attacks" title="List of Israeli price tag attacks">"price tag" attacks.</a><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_2011_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_2011-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2></div> <p>The Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem by the <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Institute_for_Israel_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies">Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies</a> put the number of residents to 19,050 in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem are difficult to define, in contrast to the Jewish neighborhoods, because dense construction has blurred older boundaries and Silwan is now merged with <a href="/wiki/Ras_al-Amud" title="Ras al-Amud">Ras al-Amud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jabel_Mukaber" title="Jabel Mukaber">Jabel Mukaber</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abu_Tor" title="Abu Tor">Abu Tor</a>. The Palestinian residents in Silwan number 20,000 to 50,000 while there are fewer than 700 Jews.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Palestinian_cultural_activities">Palestinian cultural activities</h2></div> <p>The Silwan Ta'azef Music School opened in October 2007. Since November 2007, an art program, language courses for women, men and children, leadership training for teenage girls, cooking classes, an embroidery club and swimming classes have opened in Silwan. In 2009, a local library was established. The Silwan theater group is led by a professional actress from Bethlehem.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of these activities take place at the Madaa Silwan Creative Center.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archaeology">Archaeology</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Silwan_necropolis">Silwan necropolis</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Silwan_necropolis" title="Silwan necropolis">Silwan necropolis</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:City_of_david2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/City_of_david2.jpg/220px-City_of_david2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/City_of_david2.jpg/330px-City_of_david2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/City_of_david2.jpg/440px-City_of_david2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Housing in Silwan built over ancient rock-cut structures</figcaption></figure> <p>A part of Silwan was built around and above the <a href="/wiki/Silwan_necropolis" title="Silwan necropolis">Silwan necropolis</a>, a series of rock-cut structures originally used as Iron Age tombs, but repurposed for various uses over the millennia.<sup id="cite_ref-Ussishkin_12-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ussishkin-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wadi_Hilweh">Wadi Hilweh</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Wadi_Hilweh" title="Wadi Hilweh">Wadi Hilweh</a>, <a href="/wiki/City_of_David_(archaeological_site)" title="City of David (archaeological site)">City of David (archaeological site)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Givati_Parking_Lot_dig" title="Givati Parking Lot dig">Givati Parking Lot dig</a></div> <p>The ridge to the west of Silwan, part of the Wadi Hilweh Arab neighbourhood and known as the City of David in archaeological and tourism contexts, is believed to be the original <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> site of Jerusalem. Archaeological exploration began in the 19th century. Vacant during most of the Ottoman period, Jewish and Arab settlement began in the late 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Religious_Zionism" title="Religious Zionism">National-Religious</a> Jewish <a href="/wiki/Israeli_settlers" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli settlers">settlers'</a> organisation, ElAd, was accused of excavating on Palestinian property<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and beginning its work on the City of David tunnels before receiving a permit from the Jerusalem Municipality.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The general area was thought by many historical geographers to be that of <a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a>' <a href="/wiki/Acra_(fortress)" title="Acra (fortress)">Acra</a>, so-named after an old fortress that was once there, an area also called the "Lower City."<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2007, archaeologists unearthed under a parking lot a 2,000-year-old mansion that may have belonged to <a href="/wiki/Queen_Helene_of_Adiabene" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Helene of Adiabene">Queen Helene of Adiabene</a>. 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Jerusalem: Mekhon Masoret. p. (chapter 35). <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/232936057">232936057</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Avot+de-Rabbi+Natan&rft.place=Jerusalem&rft.pages=%28chapter+35%29&rft.pub=Mekhon+Masoret&rft.date=1976&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F232936057&rft.au=Nathan+ha-Bavli&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Luke%2013:1–5&version=nrsv">Luke 13:1–5</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=John%209:1–9&version=nrsv">9:1–9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Blind-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Blind_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Blind_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeology-sites/the-siloam-pool-where-jesus-healed-the-blind-man/">"The Siloam Pool Where Jesus Healed the Blind Man"</a>. 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(<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0148%3Abook%3D5%3Awhiston+chapter%3D4%3Awhiston+section%3D3">5.156</a>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a> (1981), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jewish_War" title="The Jewish War">The Jewish War</a></i> 5.6.1 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0148%3Abook%3D5%3Awhiston+chapter%3D6%3Awhiston+section%3D1">5.248</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201010000415/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0148:book%3D5:whiston+chapter%3D6:whiston+section%3D1">Archived</a> October 10, 2020, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/G.A._Williamson" class="mw-redirect" title="G.A. Williamson">Williamson</a> (1980), p. 296</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-autogenerated2-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated2_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jeffrey Yas.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/ViewArticle.aspx?id=240">"(Re)designing the City of David: Landscape, Narrative and Archaeology in Silwan"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100302175621/http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/ViewArticle.aspx?id=240">Archived</a> March 2, 2010, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>; <i>Jerusalem Quarterly,</i> Winter 2000, Issue 7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sharon, 1997, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=j1rSzWgHMjoC&pg=PA24">24</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221031155611/https://books.google.com/books?id=j1rSzWgHMjoC&pg=PA24">Archived</a> October 31, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LeStrange-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LeStrange_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Muk., 171. Quoted in Guy Le Strange: <i>Palestine under the Moslems</i>, 1890, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/palestineundermo00lestuoft#page/221/mode/1up">221</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gil-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Gil_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Gil_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGil1996" class="citation book cs1">Gil, Moshe (1996). Prawer, Joshua; Ben-Shammai, Haggai (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-qQUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA173"><i>The Political History of Jerusalem during the Early Muslim Period: The Jewish Community</i></a>. Yad Yzhak Ben-Zvi & NYU Press. p. 173 n. 11. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780814766392" title="Special:BookSources/9780814766392"><bdi>9780814766392</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 14,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Political+History+of+Jerusalem+during+the+Early+Muslim+Period%3A+The+Jewish+Community&rft.pages=173+n.+11&rft.pub=Yad+Yzhak+Ben-Zvi+%26+NYU+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=9780814766392&rft.aulast=Gil&rft.aufirst=Moshe&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-qQUCgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA173&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">|work=</code> ignored (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#periodical_ignored" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 114</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Jerusalem">"Jerusalem | History, Map, Culture, & Facts"</a>. <i>Encyclopedia Britannica</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Encyclopedia+Britannica&rft.atitle=Jerusalem+%26%23124%3B+History%2C+Map%2C+Culture%2C+%26+Facts&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fplace%2FJerusalem&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City</i> Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, Part II, Chapter One: Ottoman Rule, pp. 90, 109, Yad Ben Zvi Institute & St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City</i> Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, Part II, Chapter Two: The Muslim Community, p. 133, Yad Ben Zvi Institute & St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/122/mode/1up">122</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Picturing Jerusalem</i>; James Graham and Mendel Diness, Photographers, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Har-El2004-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Har-El2004_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMenashe_Har-El2004" class="citation book cs1">Menashe Har-El (April 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9Z2cFY9iGqgC&pg=PA244"><i>Golden Jerusalem</i></a>. Gefen Publishing House Ltd. p. 244. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-965-229-254-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-965-229-254-4"><bdi>978-965-229-254-4</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 14,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Golden+Jerusalem&rft.pages=244&rft.pub=Gefen+Publishing+House+Ltd&rft.date=2004-04&rft.isbn=978-965-229-254-4&rft.au=Menashe+Har-El&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9Z2cFY9iGqgC%26pg%3DPA244&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>This is Jerusalem</i>, Menashe Har-El, Jerusalem 1977, p.135</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.baslibrary.org/biblical-archaeology-review/20/3/3">"The Tombs of Silwan"</a>. <i>The BAS Library</i>. August 24, 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+BAS+Library&rft.atitle=The+Tombs+of+Silwan&rft.date=2015-08-24&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.baslibrary.org%2Fbiblical-archaeology-review%2F20%2F3%2F3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Socin, 1879, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde01deut#page/161/mode/1up">161</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hartmann, 1883, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_BZobAQAAIAAJ#page/n932/mode/1up">124</a> also noted 92 houses</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-SWP30-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-SWP30_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp03conduoft#page/30/mode/1up">30</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PullanSternberg2013-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-PullanSternberg2013_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWendy_PullanMaximilian_SternbergLefkos_KyriacouCraig_Larkin2013" class="citation book cs1">Wendy Pullan; Maximilian Sternberg; Lefkos Kyriacou; Craig Larkin; Michael Dumper (November 20, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SeEkAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA96">"David's City in Palestinian Silwan"</a>. <i>The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places</i>. Routledge. pp. <span class="nowrap">76–</span>77. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-317-97556-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-317-97556-4"><bdi>978-1-317-97556-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=David%27s+City+in+Palestinian+Silwan&rft.btitle=The+Struggle+for+Jerusalem%27s+Holy+Places&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E76-%3C%2Fspan%3E77&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2013-11-20&rft.isbn=978-1-317-97556-4&rft.au=Wendy+Pullan&rft.au=Maximilian+Sternberg&rft.au=Lefkos+Kyriacou&rft.au=Craig+Larkin&rft.au=Michael+Dumper&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSeEkAgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA96&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Yemin Moshe: The Story of a Jerusalem Neighborhood, Eliezer David Jaffe, Praeger, 1988, p. 51</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Handbook to the Mediterranean: Its Cities, Coasts and Islands</i>, <a href="/wiki/Lambert_Playfair" title="Lambert Playfair">Robert Lambert Playfair</a>, John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1892, p. 70.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Biblical Geography and History</i>, Charles Foster Kent, 1911 , p. 219</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Holy Land and the Bible: A Book of Scripture Illustrations</i>, Cunningham Geikie , 1888, New York, James Pott & Co. Publishers p.558</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDalman2020" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol"><a href="/wiki/Gustaf_Dalman" title="Gustaf Dalman">Dalman, Gustaf</a> (2020). Nadia Abdulhadi-Sukhtian (ed.). <i>Work and Customs in Palestine, volume II</i>. Vol. 2 (Agriculture). Translated by Robert Schick. 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Gelber, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DPjhaJ5prXMC&pg=PA88"><i>No Balm in Gilead: A Personal Retrospective of Mandate Days in Palestine,</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221031155646/https://books.google.com/books?id=DPjhaJ5prXMC&pg=PA88">Archived</a> October 31, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, 1989 p.88</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Schick, 1896, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde19deut#page/n228/mode/1up">121</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n16/mode/1up">14</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barron, 1923, Table XIV, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n47/mode/1up">45</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AmericaDept1997-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-AmericaDept1997_54-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFZionist_Organization_of_AmericaJewish_Agency_for_Israel._Economic_Dept1997" class="citation book cs1">Zionist Organization of America; Jewish Agency for Israel. Economic Dept (1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=56xtAAAAMAAJ"><i>Israel yearbook and almanac</i></a>. IBRT Translation/Documentation Ltd. p. 102<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 14,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Israel+yearbook+and+almanac&rft.pages=102&rft.pub=IBRT+Translation%2FDocumentation+Ltd.&rft.date=1997&rft.au=Zionist+Organization+of+America&rft.au=Jewish+Agency+for+Israel.+Economic+Dept&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D56xtAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Census1931-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Census1931_55-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mills, 1932, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas">43</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sylva M. Gelber, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DPjhaJ5prXMC&pg=PA88"><i>No balm in Gilead: a personal retrospective of mandate days in Palestine,</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221031155646/https://books.google.com/books?id=DPjhaJ5prXMC&pg=PA88">Archived</a> October 31, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Carleton University/McGill University Press 1989 pp. 56,88.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Shragai-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Shragai_57-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFShragai2004" class="citation news cs1">Shragai, Nadav (January 4, 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/11-jewish-families-move-into-j-lem-neighborhood-of-silwan-1.118528">"11 Jewish families move into J'lem neighborhood of Silwan"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Haaretz" title="Haaretz">Haaretz</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Haaretz&rft.atitle=11+Jewish+families+move+into+J%27lem+neighborhood+of+Silwan&rft.date=2004-01-04&rft.aulast=Shragai&rft.aufirst=Nadav&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fprint-edition%2Fnews%2F11-jewish-families-move-into-j-lem-neighborhood-of-silwan-1.118528&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Post" title="Palestine Post">Palestine Post</a></i>, August 15, 1938, p. 2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-1930riot-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1930riot_59-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130131181858/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/62536043.html?dids=62536043:62536043&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+15,+1995&author=BILL+HUTMAN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Documents+show+Arabs+illegally+obtained+Jewish+homes+in+Silwan&pqatl=google">Documents show Arabs illegally obtained Jewish homes in Silwan</a>, Bill Hutman, <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerusalem Post">Jerusalem Post</a>. Retrieved October 14, 2010.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-jpost1930-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-jpost1930_60-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99689927.html?dids=99689927:99689927&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+10%2C+1992&author=Gail+Lichtman&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=WHO+OWNS+THE+LAND%3F&pqatl=google">WHO OWNS THE LAND?</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121104094953/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99689927.html?dids=99689927:99689927&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+10,+1992&author=Gail+Lichtman&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=WHO+OWNS+THE+LAND%3F&pqatl=google">Archived</a> November 4, 2012, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Gail Lichtman, <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerusalem Post">Jerusalem Post</a>. Retrieved October 29, 2010.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-1945p25-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1945p25_61-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Department of Statistics, 1945, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p25.jpg">25</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160512205509/http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p25.jpg">Archived</a> May 12, 2016, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. <i>Village Statistics, April 1945.</i> Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Jerusalem/Page-058.jpg">58</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181103095254/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Jerusalem/Page-058.jpg">Archived</a> November 3, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. <i>Village Statistics, April 1945.</i> Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Jerusalem/Page-104.jpg">104</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120314093122/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Jerusalem/Page-104.jpg">Archived</a> March 14, 2012, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. <i>Village Statistics, April 1945.</i> Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Jerusalem/Page-154.jpg">154</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140427225840/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Jerusalem/Page-154.jpg">Archived</a> April 27, 2014, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Fischbach-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Fischbach_65-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFischbach2000" class="citation book cs1">Fischbach, Michael R. (2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_WAgDMWsyb8C"><i>State, Society, and Land in Jordan</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Brill_Publishers" title="Brill Publishers">Brill Publishers</a>. p. 193. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-11912-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-11912-3"><bdi>978-90-04-11912-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=State%2C+Society%2C+and+Land+in+Jordan&rft.pages=193&rft.pub=Brill+Publishers&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-90-04-11912-3&rft.aulast=Fischbach&rft.aufirst=Michael+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_WAgDMWsyb8C&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bronner-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bronner_66-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBronner2008" class="citation news cs1">Bronner, Yigal (May 1, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/may/01/archaeologistsforhire">"Archaeologists for hire"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Archaeologists+for+hire&rft.date=2008-05-01&rft.aulast=Bronner&rft.aufirst=Yigal&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcommentisfree%2F2008%2Fmay%2F01%2Farchaeologistsforhire&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=411060">"11 Jewish families move into J'lem neighborhood of Silwan – Haaretz – Israel News"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=11+Jewish+families+move+into+J%27lem+neighborhood+of+Silwan+%E2%80%93+Haaretz+%E2%80%93+Israel+News&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fhasen%2Fpages%2FShArt.jhtml%3FitemNo%3D411060&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFreedman2008" class="citation news cs1">Freedman, Seth (February 26, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/feb/26/diggingintotrouble">"Digging into trouble"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i> – via www.theguardian.com.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Digging+into+trouble&rft.date=2008-02-26&rft.aulast=Freedman&rft.aufirst=Seth&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcommentisfree%2F2008%2Ffeb%2F26%2Fdiggingintotrouble&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASilwan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://domino.un.org/unispal.NSF/3822b5e39951876a85256b6e0058a478/44ddc2496c28e0af052567f400544c98!OpenDocument">"Letter dated 16 October 1987 from the Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General"</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged May 2018">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> UN General Assembly Security Council</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Quigley_(academic)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Quigley (academic)">John Quigley</a>, <i>Flight into the Maelstrom: Soviet Immigration to Israel and Middle East Peace,</i> Ithaca Press, 1997 p.68.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Hillel_Cohen" title="Hillel Cohen">Hillel Cohen</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KRKsAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA94"><i>The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967,</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221031155647/https://books.google.com/books?id=KRKsAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA94">Archived</a> October 31, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Routledge 2013 p.94.'Late in the Intifada, when Jewish settlement began in the Wadi Hilwe section of Silwan ("The City of David") left-wing activists from Jerusalem worked together with people from Orient House in an attempt to stop the Jewish settlement in the neighbourhood '.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Meron Rapoport.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=530047&contrassID=1">Land lords</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081220142640/http://news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=530047&contrassID=1">Archived</a> December 20, 2008, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>; Haaretz, January 20, 2005</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Joel_Greenburg-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Joel_Greenburg_73-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joel Greenburg.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E6D9143AF93AA35755C0A96E958260">"Settlers Move Into 4 Homes in East Jerusalem"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221031155648/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/09/world/settlers-move-into-4-homes-in-east-jerusalem.html">Archived</a> October 31, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>; New York Times, June 9, 1998</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Meron Rapoport.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/the-republic-of-elad-1.185892">"The republic of Elad"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101205072112/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/the-republic-of-elad-1.185892">Archived</a> December 5, 2010, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>; Haaretz, April 23, 2006 [retrieved May 27, 2010]</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060719172832/http://www.fmep.org/reports/vol14/no4/07-settlement_timeline.html">"Settlement Timeline"</a>. Foundation for Middle East Peace. July–August 2004. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fmep.org/reports/vol14/no4/07-settlement_timeline.html">the original</a> on July 19, 2006<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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href="http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Silwan.html">Ancient Silwan (Shiloah) Siloam in Israel and The City of David</a></li> <li>Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8379">IAA</a>, <a href="/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.17.jpg" title="File:Survey of Western Palestine 1880.17.jpg">Wikimedia commons</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vprofile.arij.org/jerusalem/pdfs/factsheet/Silwan%20and%20Ath%20Thury_EN.pdf">Silwan & Ath Thuri (Fact Sheet)</a> <a href="/wiki/Applied_Research_Institute%E2%80%93Jerusalem" title="Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem">Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem</a>, ARIJ</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vprofile.arij.org/jerusalem/images/english/Silwan%20&%20Ath%20Thuri_ap_en.jpg">Aerial photo</a>, ARIJ</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.antiquities.org.il/survey/new/default_en.aspx?pid=13729">Silwan (Shiloah) in Antiquity</a> Archaeological Survey of Israel</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2011/jun/08/east-jerusalem-palestinian-israel-archaeology-english">East Jerusalem: 'Every action in this area is very sensitive' – video</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2011/jun/08/east-jerusalem-israel-palestine-cctv-english?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486">East Jerusalem: Witnessing the truth – video</a>, <i>The Guardian</i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120501114828/http://www.civiccoalition-jerusalem.org/tag/silwan">Home Demolition and Forced Displacement in Silwan</a>, <i>The Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem</i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.vice.com/video/a-city-divided-jerusalems-most-contested-neighborhood">A City Divided: Jerusalem's Most Contested Neighborhood</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Vice_News" title="Vice News">Vice News</a></i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL5VhNj11IRaVcjd29KKekiPNrRHTiCDzJ&v=PMeEaeSP8aE">Overview of the Yemenite Village Adjacent to the Gihon Spring</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Ateret_Cohanim" title="Ateret Cohanim">Ateret Cohanim</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.silwanic.net/">Wadi Hilweh Information Center</a></li></ul> <p><span class="geo-inline-hidden noexcerpt"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output 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Jerusalem</a> in <span class="tmp-color" style="color:blue">blue</span> (see <a href="/wiki/Green_Line_(Israel)" title="Green Line (Israel)">Green Line</a>).</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Old City</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Quarter" title="Armenian Quarter"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Armenian Quarter</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Quarter" title="Christian Quarter"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Christian Quarter</span></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muristan" title="Muristan"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Muristan</span></a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Quarter_(Jerusalem)" title="Jewish Quarter (Jerusalem)"><span class="tmp-color" 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Jerusalem">Beit Ya'akov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beit_Yisrael" title="Beit Yisrael">Beit Yisrael</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bukharan_Quarter" title="Bukharan Quarter">Bukharim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downtown_Triangle_(Jerusalem)" title="Downtown Triangle (Jerusalem)">Downtown Triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geula" title="Geula">Geula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rassco_(neighborhood)" title="Rassco (neighborhood)">Givat HaVradim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Givat_Ram" title="Givat Ram">Givat Ram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Gateway" title="Jerusalem Gateway">Jerusalem Gateway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katamon" title="Katamon">Katamon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerem_Avraham" title="Kerem Avraham">Kerem Avraham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_HaLeom" title="Kiryat HaLeom">Kiryat HaLeom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_HaMemshala" title="Kiryat HaMemshala">Kiryat HaMemshala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Shmuel,_Jerusalem" title="Kiryat Shmuel, Jerusalem">Kiryat Shmuel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Shomrei_Emunim" title="Kiryat Shomrei Emunim">Kiryat Shomrei Emunim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Wolfson" title="Kiryat Wolfson">Kiryat Wolfson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahane_Israel" title="Mahane Israel">Mahane Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahane_Yehuda_Market" title="Mahane Yehuda Market">Mahane Yehuda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mea_Shearim" title="Mea Shearim">Mea Shearim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mekor_Baruch" title="Mekor Baruch">Mekor Baruch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Zion" title="Mount Zion">Mount Zion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Musrara" title="Musrara">Musrara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahalat_Shiv%27a" title="Nahalat Shiv'a">Nahalat Shiv'a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nachlaot" title="Nachlaot">Nachlaot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nayot" title="Nayot">Nayot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neve_Granot" title="Neve Granot">Neve Granot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neve_Sha%27anan,_Jerusalem" title="Neve Sha'anan, Jerusalem">Neve Sha'anan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rehavia" title="Rehavia">Rehavia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romema" title="Romema">Romema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Compound" title="Russian Compound">Russian Compound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sha%27arei_Hesed" title="Sha'arei Hesed">Sha'arei Hesed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shmuel_HaNavi_(neighborhood)" title="Shmuel HaNavi (neighborhood)">Shmuel HaNavi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talbiya" title="Talbiya">Talbiya (Komemiyut)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemin_Moshe" title="Yemin Moshe">Yemin Moshe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zikhron_Moshe" title="Zikhron Moshe">Zikhron Moshe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Northern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Ram" title="Al-Ram"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Al-Ram</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beit_Hanina" title="Beit Hanina"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Beit Hanina</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Ram" title="Al-Ram"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Dahiyat al–Barid</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezrat_Torah" title="Ezrat Torah">Ezrat Torah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Hill_(settlement)" title="French Hill (settlement)"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">French Hill</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Givat_HaMivtar" title="Givat HaMivtar"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Givat HaMivtar</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Givat_Moshe" title="Givat Moshe">Givat Moshe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Har_Hotzvim" title="Har Hotzvim">Har Hotzvim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kafr_%27Aqab" title="Kafr 'Aqab"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Kafr 'Aqab</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Belz" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiryat Belz">Kiryat Belz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Itri" title="Kiryat Itri">Kiryat Itri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Mattersdorf" title="Kiryat Mattersdorf">Kiryat Mattersdorf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Sanz,_Jerusalem" title="Kiryat Sanz, Jerusalem">Kiryat Sanz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma%27alot_Dafna" title="Ma'alot Dafna"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Ma'alot Dafna</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Scopus" title="Mount Scopus">Mount Scopus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neve_Yaakov" title="Neve Yaakov"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Neve Yaakov</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pisgat_Ze%27ev" title="Pisgat Ze'ev"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Pisgat Ze'ev</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramat_Eshkol" title="Ramat Eshkol"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Ramat Eshkol</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramat_Shlomo" title="Ramat Shlomo"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Ramat Shlomo</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramot,_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramot, Jerusalem"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Ramot</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramot_Polin" title="Ramot Polin"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Ramot Polin</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanhedria" title="Sanhedria">Sanhedria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanhedria_Murhevet" title="Sanhedria Murhevet">Sanhedria Murhevet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shikun_Chabad" title="Shikun Chabad">Shikun Chabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shuafat" title="Shuafat"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Shuafat</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tel_Arza" title="Tel Arza">Tel Arza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Unsdorf" title="Kiryat Unsdorf">Unsdorf</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Eastern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arab_al-Jahalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab al-Jahalin"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Arab al–Jahalin</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Colony,_Jerusalem" title="American Colony, Jerusalem"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">American Colony</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Garden_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="King's Garden (Jerusalem)"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Al Bustan</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Issawiya" title="Issawiya"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Al-Issawiya</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/At-Tur_(Mount_of_Olives)" class="mw-redirect" title="At-Tur (Mount of Olives)"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">At-Tur</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bab_a-Zahara" class="mw-redirect" title="Bab a-Zahara"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Bab a-Zahara</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethany" title="Bethany"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Bethany</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_David_(Silwan)" class="mw-redirect" title="City of David (Silwan)"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Ir David</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jabel_Mukaber" title="Jabel Mukaber"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Jabel Mukaber</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Menachem_Begin" title="Kiryat Menachem Begin"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Kiryat Menachem Begin</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma%27ale_HaZeitim" title="Ma'ale HaZeitim"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Ma'ale HaZeitim</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahalat_Shimon" title="Nahalat Shimon"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Nahalat Shimon</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nof_Zion" title="Nof Zion"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Nof Zion</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ras_al-Amud" title="Ras al-Amud"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Ras al-Amud</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Jarrah" title="Sheikh Jarrah"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Sheikh Jarrah</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shimon_HaTzadik" title="Shimon HaTzadik"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Shimon HaTzadik</span></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Silwan</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wadi_al-Joz" title="Wadi al-Joz"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Wadi al-Joz</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Southern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Tor" title="Abu Tor">Abu Tor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnona" title="Arnona">Arnona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baka,_Jerusalem" title="Baka, Jerusalem">Baka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beit_Safafa" title="Beit Safafa"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Beit Safafa</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Talpiot" title="East Talpiot"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">East Talpiot</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Colony,_Jerusalem" title="German Colony, Jerusalem">German Colony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilo" title="Gilo"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Gilo</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Givat_HaMatos" title="Givat HaMatos"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Givat HaMatos</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Givat_Oranim" title="Givat Oranim">Givat Oranim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Givat_Massuah" title="Givat Massuah">Givat Massuah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Colony,_Jerusalem" title="Greek Colony, Jerusalem">Greek colony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Har_Homa" title="Har Homa"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Har Homa</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katamon#Katamonim" title="Katamon">Katamonim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malha" title="Malha">Malha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mekor_Chaim" title="Mekor Chaim">Mekor Chaim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat,_Jerusalem" title="Pat, Jerusalem">Pat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramat_Rachel" title="Ramat Rachel">Ramat Rachel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katamon#Katamonim" title="Katamon">San Simon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharafat,_East_Jerusalem" title="Sharafat, East Jerusalem"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Sharafat</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sur_Baher" title="Sur Baher"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Sur Baher</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talpiot" title="Talpiot">Talpiot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umm_Tuba" title="Umm Tuba"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Umm Tuba</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Western</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayit_VeGan" title="Bayit VeGan">Bayit VeGan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beit_HaKerem,_Jerusalem" title="Beit HaKerem, Jerusalem">Beit HaKerem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ein_Karem" title="Ein Karem">Ein Karem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Givat_Beit_HaKerem" title="Givat Beit HaKerem">Givat Beit HaKerem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Givat_Shaul" title="Givat Shaul">Givat Shaul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Givat_Mordechai" title="Givat Mordechai">Givat Mordechai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Har_Nof" title="Har Nof">Har Nof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ir_Ganim" title="Ir Ganim">Ir Ganim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_HaYovel" title="Kiryat HaYovel">Kiryat HaYovel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Menachem" title="Kiryat Menachem">Kiryat Menachem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Moshe" title="Kiryat Moshe">Kiryat Moshe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motza" title="Motza">Motza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramat_Beit_HaKerem" title="Ramat Beit HaKerem">Ramat Beit HaKerem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramat_Denya" title="Ramat Denya">Ramat Denya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramat_Sharett" title="Ramat Sharett">Ramat Sharett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yefeh_Nof" title="Yefeh Nof">Yefeh Nof</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atarot" title="Atarot"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Atarot</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batei_Munkacs" title="Batei Munkacs">Batei Munkacs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batei_Saidoff" title="Batei Saidoff">Batei Saidoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Even_Yisrael_(neighborhood)" title="Even Yisrael (neighborhood)">Even Yisrael</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezrat_Yisrael" title="Ezrat Yisrael">Ezrat Yisrael</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirya_Ne%27emana" title="Kirya Ne'emana"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Kirya Ne'emana</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knesset_Yisrael" title="Knesset Yisrael">Knesset Yisrael</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lifta" title="Lifta">Lifta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahane_Yehuda_(neighborhood)" title="Mahane Yehuda (neighborhood)">Mahane Yehuda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamilla" title="Mamilla">Mamilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazkeret_Moshe" title="Mazkeret Moshe">Mazkeret Moshe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mishkenot_Sha%27ananim" title="Mishkenot Sha'ananim">Mishkenot Sha'ananim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mughrabi_Quarter" title="Mughrabi Quarter"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#228B22">Mughrabi Quarter</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohel_Shlomo" title="Ohel Shlomo">Ohel Shlomo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sha%27arei_Yerushalayim" title="Sha'arei Yerushalayim">Sha'arei Yerushalayim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Badr,_Jerusalem" title="Sheikh Badr, Jerusalem">Sheikh Badr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zikhron_Tuvya" title="Zikhron Tuvya">Zikhron Tuvya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zikhron_Yosef" title="Zikhron Yosef">Zikhron Yosef</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li>See also: <a href="/wiki/Courtyard_neighborhood" title="Courtyard neighborhood">Courtyard neighborhood</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ring_Neighborhoods,_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Ring Neighborhoods, Jerusalem">Ring Neighborhoods</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Cemeteries_in_Jerusalem821" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" 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href="/wiki/List_of_cemeteries_in_Israel#Jerusalem" title="List of cemeteries in Israel">Cemeteries in Jerusalem</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Christian cemeteries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Zion_Cemetery,_Jerusalem" title="Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem">Mount Zion Cemetery</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Islamic cemeteries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mamilla_Cemetery" title="Mamilla Cemetery">Mamilla Cemetery</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Jewish cemeteries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 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