Pisgat Ze'ev
Pisgat Ze'ev (Hebrew: פסגת זאב, literally Ze'evs tip), is a district of 50,000 inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is bordered to the west and south by the Arabian district Shu'afat, on the east by the Arab villages of Anata and also Chizma and to the north by the Jewish neighborhood of Neve Ya'akov.
Pisgat Ze'ev was founded to a large extent by continuous building area of French Hill to Neve Ya'akov (founded in 1972) and also to provide to overcome the hitherto passed relative isolation of the satellite city of Neve Ya'akov. In planning Pisgat Ze'ev city is one of the five so-called ring - city neighborhoods to the hitherto closed settlement area of Jerusalem.
However Situated in the north of East Jerusalem belongs to the field of Pisgat Ze'ev to the annexed after the Six -Day War, the area of the Palestine region. The international community also considered the area from Pisgat Ze'ev in international law (UN Security Council Resolution 267 ) populated than illegal. Pisgat Ze'ev is therefore regarded as one of the not internationally recognized Israeli settlements in the West Bank and, consequently, not as a suburb of Jerusalem. The Israeli government disputes this and refers mainly to the Israeli Jerusalem Act of 1980.
Archaeological excavations have shown that the region was one of the main producers of wine and oil for the Temple in Jerusalem. The settlement was planned on a hill and its slopes, which the Palestinians as a Ras - Tawill ( 772 meters above sea level) is known. Originally, the name should read Pisgat valley, finally the name was chosen Pisgat Ze'ev, named after the leading Zionist and founder of the Jewish Legion in World War I, Ze'ev Jabotinsky. For this reason, many streets after the Israeli army members have been appointed.
The construction of Pisgat Ze'ev began in 1982, moved here in 1984 one of the first families. With 40 percent of the population under the age of 21 years Pisgat Ze'ev is one of the demographically youngest districts. This is demonstrated by 58 kindergartens, 9 primary schools, two middle schools and three high schools. Pisgat Ze'ev is composed of five sectors (in brackets the first completions ): Center (1984 ), West (1988 ), East and West (1990 ), and South (1998). The settlement is connected with downtown Jerusalem by the Route 60 highway and the city railway in operation since August 19, 2011.
The settlement increased the proportion of the Jewish population in East Jerusalem against the Arab-Palestinian. Between 1990 and 1993, the previously existing population majority of Palestinians tipped in favor of the Jews in order: 1990 lived 150,000 Palestinians and 120,000 Jews in East Jerusalem, 1993, there were 155,000 Palestinians and 160,000 Jews. Here 2004 Israeli fortifications were built to separate Pisgat Ze'ev like other parts of Jerusalem from the West Bank and prevent the infiltration of terrorists from the spring. However, one of the results was that a number of Palestinians into Pisgat Ze'ev, which until then had a relatively homogeneous Jewish population structure drew upon.