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Silwan, A-Tur or Issewiyeh,
where such trappings of
modern civilization had not
been considered necessary.
Everybody knew everyone
else, and if you were looking
for Mahmoud the blacksmith,
you just asked.
The municipality decided,
however, that the neighbor-
hoods were entitled to
modern services, running
water, electricity, telephones
and regular postal services,
and for these purposes the
streets had to be named and
the houses numbered. In
order to choose the names,
Mayor Teddy Kollek co-opted
onto the municipal street
names committee a veteran
Arab municipal worker,
Salah Jaralla, who had serv-
ed in the east Jerusalem
municipality under Jorda-
nian rule.
Mr. Jaralla's family has liv-
ed in the Old City for 800
years. An ancestor entered
Jerusalem with the army of
Saladin. "We consulted the
mukhtars (headmen) and
other influential people in
Shu'afat, Bet-Hanina and
other Arab neighborhoods,
about the personalities whom
they wished to honor with
street names," Mr. Jaralla ex-
plained. "We applied the
same criteria as in the Jewish
part of the city. If the street
is to be named after an in-
dividual, he should have had
some connection with Jerusa-
lem and have contributed to
its history or development."
Among the names chosen
were Raghi bin Nashashibi,
after one of the mayors of east
Jerusalem under the Jorda-
nians. He was an engineer
and is remembered for the
public works he initiated.
Also honored is a relative of
Salah Jaralla, Sheikh Hassan
Jaralla, a teacher of Sharia
(Islamic law) and Grand Muf-
ti under the Jordanians. In
the new street names, Arab
scholars, poets and authors
predominate. A typical choice
is Arazi St., named after a
famous Arab physician.
One of the streets linking
east and west Jerusalem is
probably unique. Its present
name is not remarkable. It is
called Jerusalem Brigade St.,
after the Israel Army unit
that broke into the Old City
from the south.
What makes it special is
that when the troops advanc-
ed up the road, it was only the
second time it had been used.
It had been built early in
1967 by the Israeli
authorities for Pope Paul VI
to cross from Israel into Jor-
dan, and since the two coun-
tries were not at peace, it was
never used again — until the
war. ❑

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