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Some of Jerusalem's more famous street names.

Street Names
Reflect History

EHUD KATZ

Special to The Jewish News

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he Street of the Valley
of Ghosts, the Street of
the Prophets, the
Tribes of Israel Street, the
Way of the Righteous — these
are just a few of Jerusalem's
exotic street names.
Many of the street names
reflect the biblical roots of the
Jewish people: King David,
King Solomon, the Hasmo-
nean kings, all have streets
named after them. Even more
recent celebrities, such as the
19th century Anglo-Jewish
traveler and philanthropist
Sir Moses Montefiore, are
sometimes honored in a
biblical fashion. One of the
neighborhoods which he
founded, and a street in it, are
called Ohel Moshe ("Moses'
Tent").
The British mandate also
left its mark in King George
V Street, a main thorough-
fare in the city center. People
working or shopping in the
Mahane Yehuda open-air
market could be forgiven for
thinking that Pri Hadash
("New Fruit") St. referred to
the produce on sale. In fact it
is the name of a book, a com-
mentary on the Shulchan
Aruch, written by the 18th
century Sephardi sage Rabbi
Hezkia da Silva.
This is also true of Mesilat
Yesharim ("Way of the
Righteous") St., named after
a work by the 18th century
mystic Rabbi Haim Luzatto.
Most names in this category
appear in religious neighbor-
hoods, where the book is often
known to the residents and
the author all but forgotten.
In the Jewish neighbor-
hoods built immediately after
the Six Day War, many street
names reflect areas con-

quered by the Israel Defense
Forces such as Golan Heights,
Red Sea, Sinai Desert. On the
dividing line between the
Jewish and Arab sections of
the city, Aqabat el-Manzel
(Arabic, meaning roughly
"the Slope which Descends")
was changed to Paratroopers
St., after the paratroop
brigade which broke into the
Old City, ending the division
of Jerusalem.
By and large, however, the
city council decided not to
change the street names in
the Arab neighborhoods.
Arab and Moslem heroes such
as Salah e-Din (Saladin),
Haroun al-Rashid, the most

Many of the
streets reflect the
biblical roots of
the Jewish people.

famous Caliph of Baghdad,
and the Caliph Omar Ibn el-
Khatib, who captured Jerusa-
lem from the Byzantines in
the 7th century but protected
the Christian holy places, are
all commemorated.
The most famous Christian
street in the Old City is, of
course, the Via Dolorosa (the
"Way of Sorrow"), through
which, according to Christian
tradition, Jesus carried the
cross on his way to Calvary.
This narrow street was re-
stored by the Jerusalem Mu-
nicipality, with new drainage
installed and ornate paving
laid at each of the 16 Stations
of the Cross where Jesus is
said to have halted.
When the city was reunified
in 1967, the municipality was
surpriSed to find that entire
Arab neighborhoods had no
street names at all. Some of
them were villages such as