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Google Car in Jerusalem. Google Street View started in Israel in April 2012. Israel was the first country in the Middle East to see non-museum Street View.First, on April 3, the interior of the Israel Museum was introduced.
At present, the highway is non-contiguous pending final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. The section through Jenin is closed to yellow (Israeli) license plates. The sections north and south of the West Bank and through Jerusalem are closed to green (Palestinian Authority) license plates. [3]
The Jerusalem Law was condemned by the international community, which did not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 478 on 20 August 1980, which declared that the Jerusalem Law is "a violation of international law" , is "null and void and must be rescinded forthwith" .
During the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel occupied East Jerusalem; since then, the entire city has been under Israeli control. Israel unilaterally asserted in its 1980 Jerusalem Law that the whole of Jerusalem was Israel's capital. [10] In international law, East Jerusalem is defined as territory occupied by Israel.
Templar fortresses in the Outremer Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem: original Templar headquarters. In the Kingdom of Jerusalem, now in Israel and Southern Lebanon: Al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount, Jerusalem, 1119–1187; Tour du Détroit , built around 1110 by Hugues de Payens
On 27 June 1967, Israel expanded the municipal boundaries of West Jerusalem so as to include approximately 70 km 2 (27.0 sq mi) of West Bank territory today referred to as East Jerusalem, which included Jordanian East Jerusalem ( 6 km 2 (2.3 sq mi) ) and 28 villages and areas of the Bethlehem and Beit Jala municipalities 64 km 2 (25 sq mi).
[map 1] Though outside the walls of today's old city, the road is considered to be inside of historic sanctified Jerusalem. Before 1964, the way to Mount Zion was a narrow dirt track. That year, Pope Paul VI planned to visit Jerusalem and in his honour, the Jordanians allowed for the widening and laying of a proper road to enable the Pope to be ...
The cartography of Jerusalem prior to modern surveying techniques is focused only on the Old City, shown here.The expansion of the city from the mid-nineteenth century coincided with the production of the first modern map (see the Ordnance Survey map in the list below).