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February 14 • 2008

Changing
Neighborhoods

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Ziad al-Hamouri, the head of the
Jerusalem Center for Economic and
Social Rights, said Palestinian news-
Jerusalem
papers now carry advertisements for
homes in Jewish neighborhoods.
t Cafe Malcha in this city's
"It's very expensive to move into the
French Hill neighborhood,
eastern part of the city, and at the same
Hebrew and Arabic news-
time, there is an increase in unemploy-
papers sit on the counter and both
ment and poverty," he said. "This is
languages are spoken amid the din
leading Palestinians to seek out less
of espresso machines and customers'
expensive housing."
laughter.
As a consequence, outlying Jerusalem
The cafe's back room is a well-known neighborhoods like French Hill, Neve
meeting place for Jewish and Arab busi- Yaakov and Pisgat Zeev — which are
nessmen, some of whom live in French
on the Israeli side of the West Bank
Hill, a quiet neighborhood of stone
fence but east of the Green Line and,
apartment buildings and pine trees
therefore, technically part of the West
around Hebrew University's Mount
Bank — are becoming mixed Arab-
Scopus campus.
Jewish neighborhoods.
"They live here and there are no
This shift, wrought by the secu-
problems whatsoever; Moshe Feldman, rity fence, is profoundly changing the
a retired Israeli army
city's character. In
colonel and long-term "Should the
some cases, it is
French Hill resident,
prompting Jewish
phenomenon continue Jerusalemites
said of the Arabs in
his neighborhood.
unhappy with the
"It does not matter to spread, it may
changes to leave
to me whether they
their
have consequences for hoods neighbor-
are Jews or Arabs but
or the city
whether or not they
entirely.
the future of Israeli
live according to the
Yisrael Kimche,
law," added Feldman, Jerusalem as the
an urban plan-
a former military gov-
ner and senior
ernor of Ramallah.
capital of the Jewish
researcher at
The number of
the Jerusalem
state."
Arabs moving into
Institute for Israel
French Hill, as well
Studies,
long has
Yisrael Kimche
as other Jewish
warned that Arab
neighborhoods of
Jerusalemites even-
Jerusalem, is rising.
tually would start looking for housing
Wanting to be on the Israeli side of
in Jewish neighborhoods.
the West Bank security fence, which
"Once such a process begins, Jewish
in the vicinity of Jerusalem is mostly
residents will start leaving these neigh-
a concrete barrier some 20 feet high,
borhoods," he wrote in a recent study
thousands of Jerusalem Arabs are
about the implications of the security
heading to the west side of the fence.
fence. "Processes of this kind are known
Those who cannot find housing in
the world over; seam neighborhoods
the traditionally Arab eastern part of
tend to be the most severely affected.
the city, where demand has soared
Should the phenomenon continue to
and prices have risen as the fence has
spread, it may have consequences for
severed Arab suburbs from Jerusalem,
the future of Israeli Jerusalem as the
are moving in increasing numbers to
capital of the Jewish state."
Jewish neighborhoods of the Israeli
Jerusalem's Jews seem to have mixed
capital, where homes are more afford-
feelings about the changing demo-
able.
graphics of their neighborhoods. In
some neighborhoods, Jews have posted

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Neighborhoods on page A28

