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Zion Square, 1950. View of Zion Square through the windows of the Vienna Cafe, 1950. The land on which Zion Square and the Downtown Triangle lies was purchased by the Jewish Colonization Association from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, [4] which began selling off some of its holdings in Jerusalem after World War I. [5] Mandate officials developed the field into a triangular district bordered ...
Christian Quarter: Arched entrance to the Muristan, northern access to Suq Aftimos Map of the Christian Quarter. The Christian Quarter (Hebrew: הרובע הנוצרי, romanized: Ha-Rova ha-Notsri; Arabic: حارة النصارى, romanized: Ḥārat al-Naṣārā) is one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of Jerusalem, the other three being the Jewish Quarter, the Muslim Quarter and ...
As such Hebron is the second holiest city to Jews, and is one of the four cities where Israelite biblical figures purchased land (Abraham bought a field and a cave east of Hebron from the Hittites (Genesis 23:16-18), King David bought a threshing floor at Jerusalem from the Jebusite Araunah (2 Samuel 24:24), Jacob bought land outside the walls ...
HaMerotz LaMillion 7 is the seventh season of HaMerotz LaMillion (Hebrew: המירוץ למיליון, lit. The Race to the Million), an Israeli reality competition show based on the American series The Amazing Race.
The church's dimensions are the same as the original's and the garden outside the three doors outlines the atrium area. The church is unroofed and has steps that lead into a grotto where some Christians believe that Jesus revealed to his disciples his prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem and the second coming. Unfortunately, the cave ...
James F. McGrath counts 45 mentions of Jerusalem in the Ginza Rabba and 84 in the Mandaean Book of John, noting that this is a higher frequency of mentions per page than the 274 mentions in the longer Babylonian Talmud. Accounts about Jerusalem mention John the Baptist, Miriai, Jacob and Benjamin, and visits by the uthras Anush Uthra and Hibil ...
According to a traditional story, during the Ayyubid period after Saladin captured Jerusalem in 1187, the area of Abu Tor was assigned by Al-Aziz Uthman to an officer in Saladin's army. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His name was Sheikh Shehab ed Din, but he was called "Sheikh Ahmed et Toreh" (Sheikh Ahmed of the bull) or "Abu Tor" (the man with the bull, or the ...
From the mid-19th century onwards, the population of Jews in Jerusalem grew considerably, into the eastern part of the Armenian Quarter and the southern part of the Moslem Quarter; as Adar Arnon writes: "neither the traditional term 'Haret el-Yahud' nor its modern counterpart 'Jewish Quarter' could cope with the expansion of the area inhabited ...