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The Jerusalem District, highlighted.
The Jerusalem District, highlighted.

The Jerusalem District is one of six districts of Israel. Its land area is 652 square km (including East Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1967). Image File history File links Israel_jerusalem_dist. ... Image File history File links Israel_jerusalem_dist. ... There are six main districts of Israel, known in Hebrew as mehozot (singular: mehoz) and thirteen sub-districts known as nafot (singular: nafa). ... East Jerusalem is that part of Jerusalem which was held by Jordan from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War until the Six-Day War in 1967. ...


Cities

Emblem of the Municipality of Jerusalem Jerusalem and the Old City. ... Bet Shemesh (בית שמש; unofficially also spelled Beit Shemesh) is a city in the Jerusalem District in Israel. ...

Towns

Abu Ghosh is an Arab village west of Jerusalem on the road to Tel Aviv whose inhabitants were known for their friendly relations with their Jewish neighbors. ... Mevaseret Zion, Israel, is a suburb of Jerusalem overlooking Highway 1, the principal route connecting Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. ... Qiryat Yearim (Hebrew קרית יערים), is a local municipality in the Jerusalem district of Israel. ... Ramat Bet Shemesh is a relatively new neighborhood of the former developing town of Bet Shemesh. ...

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As part of the foreign philanthropic initiatives that drove at least one-third of Jewish urbanization in Jerusalem in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, neighborhoods were built for instance for Yemenite Jews in Silwan (1882) and in Al-Thuri (1888).
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