Jewish Quarter (Jerusalem)
One of the four traditional quarters of Jerusalem's Old City
Jewish Quarter (Jerusalem)
The Jewish Quarter (Hebrew: הרובע היהודי, romanized: HaRova HaYehudi; Arabic: حارة اليهود, romanized: Ḥāraṫ al-Yehūd) is one of the four traditional quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. The area lies in the southwestern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the Armenian Quarter on the west, up to the Street of the Chain in the north and extends to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in the east. In the early 20th century the Jewish population of the quarter reached 19,000. During the 1948 war, the Jewish Quarter fought the Arab Legion as part of the battle for Jerusalem, and the Hurva synagogue was blown up by Arab legionnaires. In May 1948, the Jewish Quarter surrendered; some Jews were taken captive, and the rest were evacuated. A crowd then systematically pillaged and razed the quarter. After Israel captured East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War, the quarter was earmarked for rehabilitation as a tourist destination and a residential...
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