Suite 16 at Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
Suite 16 at Mishkenot Sha'ananim, a conference center and guest house in the Yemen Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem, with views from the the suite's terrace overlooking Mt. Zion, the western walls of the Old City, and Jaffa Gate. The complex is built within the old alms house of the Jewish settlement founded by Moses (Moshe) Montefiori in the early 1800s. It includes the windmill which was used to grind grain for the residents and is now a noted Jerusalem landmark.
St Andrew's Guest House, Jerusalem
takes you on a brief tour of st. Andrews, the Scottish Guest House located the valley across from Mt. Zion in Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem - Bed & Breakfast - Yemin Moshe
Great location, walking distance from the old city and new city center, fully furnished, old historical charming neighborhood, Yemin Moshe, warm hospitality, great view.
Eden Jerusalem hotel Israel hotel מלון עדן בירושלים
Eden Jerusalem Hotel best the best deal in Jerusalem hotels in Israel +972-2-6724999 95$ for double room bed and breakfast
מלון עדן בירושלים - מלון קטן בירושלים עם אווירה ביתית חמה רגועה נעימה וצוות של מלון קטן שיעזור לכם בכל מצב, ובמחיר החל מ 390שח לזוג התקשרו לברר זמינות 02-6724999
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FROM BALFOUR TO BREXIT - MK Tzipi Livni in interview with Barak Ravid
The UK, Israel, and the Middle East on the Eve of Brexit
MK Tzipi Livni, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, in interview with Barak Ravid
Amazing 5 unit estate in Ein Karem Jerusalem For sale Israel
A unique highly desirable mini estate in Jerusalem in woodland setting. An amazing opportunity for a discernable buyer to occupy a unique location in Jerusalem. An Estate of incredible character. The estate comprises of:
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Ramat Danya villa, 7 rooms, Jerusalem Real Estate
Ramat Danya villa(near Bait vegan) on 1000 sq-m land.
150 sq-m of living dining area.
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Israel art by A.K. Segan: Jerusalem Mosaic, ink & pencil drawing, 2007 ©
New website (August 2019) of artist Akiva K. Segan:
humanrights-holocaust-art.org
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Artist and tolerance educator Akiva Kenny Segan shows Jerusalem Mosaic.
Drawn on site in Jerusalem, 2007.
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Size: (unframed) 19 1/4 inches H x 24 1/2 inches W.
[48.98 cm H x 62.23 cm W]
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Media: Pencil, ink on coffee-stained drawing paper.
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The drawing depicts buildings, walls and sites of Jerusalem's multi-faith history, architecture and peoples: Jewish, Muslim, Christian.
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Zachariah's tomb is in the Jewish cemetery called the Mount of Olives.
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Also see these videos of other Jerusalem drawings:
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Jerusalem landscape from the Scottish Guesthouse terrace, 2011:
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Jerusalem landscape from the Scottish guesthouse terrace, 2005:
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Montefiore Windmill, 2011:
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Old Jerusalem railway station, 2011:
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Jerusalem Mosaic, 2007:
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Jerusalem plant drawing (2007) imagery reinterpreted in drawing of Orthodox Jew under barbed wire, Olkusz, Poland 1940 (a mosaic-drawing combo, video'd in 2010:
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A 4 min,. 33 sec video of the Jerusalem Tree drawing & the Jerusalem plant drawing side by side. (They were done within days of each other and are on the same size paper)
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The artist, a tolerance educator in schools, colleges & universities and other sites, is best known as the creator of the Under the Wings Holocaust art series, other Holocaust and Judaic art; and the Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series.
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The first 62 works of Segan’s Under the Wings (Holocaust) art series seen
in a wall of photos of the art (30 min., 4 sec):
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The first 22 drawings of Segan’s Sight-seeing with Dignity (human rights) art series
seen in a wall of photos of the artworks. Drawings # 20, 22 & 22 are seen in the actual drawings (21 min., 9sec):
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3 min., 21 sec. studio overview of the first 5 mosaic-drawing combos of the Under the Wings art series:
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4 min., 19 sec studio overview of the first 5 mosaic-drawing combos:
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1 min., 30 sec. view of 3 mosaic-drawing combos: Mira Steiner, Orthodox Jew, Multiple-amputee
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41 min, 48 sec. overview of the 6th mosaic-drawing combo, Zlata Barshewsky of Bialystok:
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Pére Jacques mosaic-drawing overview (1 min., 22 min):
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The Pére Jacques mosaic-drawing from start (late 2014) to finish (Sept 2015); several studio visitors; Segan’s background-to-the Pére Jacques and Zlata of Bialystok mosaic-drawing combo artworks talk at the Holocaust Remembrance & Genocide Awareness program,
Seattle Univ., January 27, 2016 (1 hour, 34 min):
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A Cascadia College student, artist A.K. Segan talk about Multiple Amputee work (Jan 2015; 7 min., 20 sec):
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American terrorism gun violence victims: 2 drawings, done in 2015:
(2 M, 18s):
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Video compilation of creating SWD 21,22, two victims of American gun terrorism (24 min., 34 sec):
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Art, film © A.K. Segan
Yemin Moshe Garden and Windmill, Jerusalem Israel
Walk on the roof
Walk on the roof of the Old City of Jerusalem and down to street level
The Old City of Jerusalem, Muslim Quarter - beautiful Mamluk houses, near the Iron Gate
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera
zahigo25@walla.com 972-54-6905522 tel
סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered liscenced tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.
Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching meeting with the Dalai Lama, I realized that I had a mission. To pass on the the history of the Holy Land, its religions, and in particular, the birth and development of Christianity.
In order to fulfill this calling in the best way possible, I studied in depth, visited, and personally experienced each and every important site of the ancient Christians. I studied for and received my first bachelors degree in the ancient history of the Holy Land, and am presently completing my studies for my second degree.(Masters)
Parralel to my studies, and in order to earn a living, I was employed for many years in advertising. What I learned there was how to attract the publics attention, generate and, increase interest, and assimilate information. All this I use as tools to describe, explain and deepen the interest in the sites that we visit. From my experience, I have learned that in this way, the Holy Land becomes more than just history, and that the large stones that we see scattered about in dissaray, join together one by one until they become - a Byzantine Church. This also happens when I lead a group of Pilgrims in the Steps of Jesus. We climb to the peak of Mount Precipice, glide over the land to the Sea of Galilee, land on the water and see the miracle which enfolds before us. This is a many faceted experience. Not only history which you will remember and cherish, but an experience which I hope will be inplanted in your hearts and minds, and will accompany you all the days of your life.
Israel art by A.K. Segan: 2 Jerusalem landscape drawings, 2006, 2012 ©
American artist & tolerance educator Akiva Kenny Segan shows 2 of a number of drawings he's drawn depicting Jerusalem cityscape and landscape views.
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These 2 were drawn from the same vantage point, in Jerusalem:They were drawn from the terrace of the Scottish Guest house in Jerusalem, looking towards the Old Walled city.
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The 2012 drawing w/ the blue sky is in the collection of Mr. Solomon David Moses & Mrs. Susan Moses, Philly; formally known as The Duke & Duchess, The Hoffnagle Palace, Philadelphia.
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The 2006 drawing (w/ the stickers, rubber stamps, metallic TSA security sticker) is in the artist's studio awaiting a new home.
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The Scottish Guesthouse (St Andrews Scottish Guesthouse is the full name) owns two of Segan's drawings & watercolors: Be sure to ask to see them when visiting.
One is a drawing of the St. Andrews Castle ruins; the other a drawing of late Lwow (Poland before WWII) raised Scottish shoe cobbler, husband and father Stanley Fahrenholz, who lived in St. Andrews; a 1987 drawing drawn when Segan was Int'l Artist-in-Residence, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland. ~
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Segan is best known as the artistic creator of the Under the Wings (Holocaust) art series; other Holocaust themed art; and the Sight-seeing with Dignity (human rights) art series.
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Art, video © A.K. Segan
בית ההארחה משכנות שאננים
בית ההארחה משכנות שאננים
מתוך הסיור וכל הכבוד לשר- שכונותיו של משה, מסדרת ספרי הטיולים לכל אחד ירושלים - 50 מסלולי סיור בירושלים
בהוצאת מסלולים להתאהב בארץ מחדש, ערן ודוד גל-אור
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20100506 20:25 Jerusalem, International Writers Festival, Mishkenot . Etgar Kert v Gadi Taub
Israel art by A.K. Segan: Old Jerusalem railway station drawing, 2007 ©
The artist's website, Dec 2018: holocaust-humanrights-art.org
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Nov 8, 2017 update: On Nov 6 & Nov 7, 2017 the artist
added color to the drawing and he also added depictions of Kinneret - Sea of Galilee gefiltes he had hallucinated when he had done the drawing back in May 2017, whatwith the Jerusalem heat, and a bit of dehydration and being hungry when he was doing the drawing.
The url of a 5 min., 46 sec video of the drawing as it now looks in its final stage, Nov 8, 2017:
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The artist shows a 2007 ink drawing of the old historic Jerusalem railway station.
Media: Ink, colored pencil.
Size: 20 7/8 inches H x 30 1/4 inches W
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The old station was boarded up and in disrepair - and threatened w/ potential demolishing by developers back when the artist did the drawing - and has since been restored.
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It is now called The First Station with cafes, arts programs; even an ice-skating rink during the month of March 2014.
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The drawing was made from a smaller drawing done on-site facing the station from the roof of the nearby Scottish Guesthouse; Segan has stayed at the guest house during 5 of his 7 visits to Jerusalem; during two of those stays he lodged in the since-shuttered Tower on the hotel roof. The Scottish Guesthouse owns 2 drawings by Segan:
St Andrews Castle ruins, a 1987 drawing & watercolor; and Stanley Fahrenholz of 64 North St., St Andrews. The elder Fahrenholz was an immigrant to Scotland from Lwiw (formerly Lvov; now in Ukraine, formerly in Poland). He was a shoe cobbler; the artist is a friends of his sons, one of whom, Mat Fahrenholz, is also an artist.
In St. Andrews, 64 North St., where the Fahrenholy's lived, is now a B&B.
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A 2 min., 42 sec. film of the St Andrews Castle ruin drawing, in the St Andrews Scottish Guesthouse Jerusalem collection:
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Segan is best known as the artistic creator of the Under the Wings (Holocaust) and Sight-seeing with Dignity (human rights) art series. He does tolerance education in schools, art museums & galleries, universities and other sites.
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The First Station website:
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Scottish Guesthouse website:
Art, film © A.K. Segan
Sketching Jerusalem - a small ink drawing by artist A K Segan © 2011
The drawing states, at bottom:
Jerusalem - from Montefiore Windmill
Sunday, May 8, 2011 © 4:10 - 5:10 pm
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Drawing paper size: 8.5 inches H x 11 W
Framed size: 12.5 inches H x 15 W
Media: Ink. Three Israeli postage stamps and an Israeli post office air mail - par avion sticker were added at upper left & right, and lower left & right, along w/ a continuation of the cancellation marks drawn in ink, to the drawing paper, June 30, 2018.
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Seattle based artist and tolerance educator Akiva K. Segan, M.F.A., is best known as the creator of the Under the Wings art series and the Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series.
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The Under the Wings series, underway since 1991, portrays murdered victims of the Nazis and Fascists in Europe, 1933-45, offering audiences a restoration of dignity in memory of the victims. The Under the Wings series has 63 works completed, including 10 monumental mosaic-drawing combos. Two drawings are in progress, spring 2018.
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The Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series, begun 2003, has 27 drawings completed as of spring 2018.
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He presents exhibits, classes and Drawing for Healing workshops with audiences ages 5 to 100+ in schools, colleges, houses of worship, prisons and other venues.
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With exhibits, power-point classes and his Drawing-for-Healing workshop, he guest facilitates tolerance education with art in art museums/galleries, schools, colleges/universities, community centers and other venues in the U.S. and other countries. He has guest taught throughout the U.S., in Britain and Israel.
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His artworks are in corporate; art gallery/art museum; natural history museum; institutional; library; college and university; and house-of-worship collections in Austria, France, Hungary, Israel, the U.S. and the UK.
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© A K Segan
William Gibson: Golda’s Balcony: Research
Playwright William Gibson was born November 13, 1914 and died on November 25, 2008. He graduated from the City College of New York. His most notable plays include The Miracle Worker, Two for the Seesaw, and Golda’s Balcony. William Gibson was interviewed by Mike Wood in December of 2004 at his home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The interview segments are courtesy of the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas.
Jerusalem | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Jerusalem
00:04:36 1 Names: history and etymology
00:04:47 1.1 Ancient Egyptian sources
00:05:14 1.2 Etymology
00:06:25 1.3 Hebrew Bible and Jewish sources
00:07:00 1.4 Oldest inscriptions
00:07:38 1.5 Jebus, Zion, City of David
00:08:22 1.6 Greek, Roman and Byzantine names
00:08:45 1.7 Salem
00:09:37 1.8 Arabic names
00:10:22 2 History
00:11:29 2.1 Overview of Jerusalem's historical periods
00:11:40 2.2 Age
00:13:37 2.3 Prehistory
00:14:07 2.4 Ancient period
00:16:30 2.4.1 Biblical account
00:18:06 2.5 Classical antiquity
00:24:17 2.6 Middle Ages
00:30:11 2.7 Ottoman rule (16th–19th centuries)
00:34:19 2.8 British Mandate (1917–1948)
00:36:16 2.9 Divided city: Jordanian and Israeli rule (1948–1967)
00:41:19 2.10 Israeli rule (1967–present)
00:45:19 3 Political status
00:47:37 3.1 International status
00:48:35 3.2 Status under Israeli rule
00:51:10 3.3 Jerusalem as capital of Israel
00:54:59 3.3.1 Government precinct and national institutions
00:55:53 3.4 Jerusalem as capital of Palestine
00:57:10 4 Municipal administration
00:58:53 5 Geography
01:01:06 5.1 Climate
01:03:14 6 Demographics
01:03:23 6.1 Demographic history
01:04:25 6.2 Current demographics
01:11:27 6.3 Urban planning issues
01:12:35 7 Religious significance
01:15:50 8 Economy
01:19:37 8.1 High-rise construction
01:21:42 9 Transportation
01:24:08 10 Education
01:28:22 11 Culture
01:34:13 11.1 Media
01:34:53 11.2 Sports
01:36:49 12 Twin towns and sister cities
01:37:10 13 See also
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Jerusalem (; Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushaláyim; Arabic: القُدس al-Quds) is a city in the Middle East, located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority claim Jerusalem as their capital, as Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there and the State of Palestine ultimately foresees it as its seat of power; however, neither claim is widely recognized internationally.During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times. The part of Jerusalem called the City of David was settled in the 4th millennium BCE. Jerusalem was named as Urusalim on ancient Egyptian tablets, probably meaning City of Shalem after a Canaanite deity, during the Canaanite period (14th century BCE). During the Israelite period, significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE (Iron Age II), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of Judah. In 1538, the city walls were rebuilt for a last time around Jerusalem under Suleiman the Magnificent. Today those walls define the Old City, which has been traditionally divided into four quarters—known since the early 19th century as the Armenian, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Quarters. The Old City became a World Heritage Site in 1981, and is on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Since 1860 Jerusalem has grown far beyond the Old City's boundaries. In 2015, Jerusalem had a population of some 850,000 residents, comprising approximately 200,000 secular Jewish Israelis, 350,000 Haredi Jews and 300,000 Palestinians. In 2011, the population numbered 801,000, of which Jews comprised 497,000 (62%), Muslims 281,000 (35%), Christians 14,000 (around 2%) and 9,000 (1%) were not classified by religion.According to the Bible, King David conquered the city from the Jebusites and established it as the capital of the united kingdom of Israel, and his son, King Solomon, commissioned the building of the First Temple. These foundational events, straddling the dawn of the 1st millennium BCE, assumed central symbolic importance for the Jewish people. The sobriquet of holy city (עיר הקודש, ...
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- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Jerusalem (; Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushaláyim; Arabic: القُدس al-Quds) is a city in the Middle East, located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority claim Jerusalem as their capital, as Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there and the State of Palestine ultimately foresees it as its seat of power; however, neither claim is widely recognized internationally.During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times. The part of Jerusalem called the City of David was settled in the 4th millennium BCE. Jerusalem was named as Urusalim on ancient Egyptian tablets, probably meaning City of Shalem after a Canaanite deity, during the Canaanite period (14th century BCE). During the Israelite period, significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE (Iron Age II), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of Judah. In 1538, the city walls were rebuilt for a last time around Jerusalem under Suleiman the Magnificent. Today those walls define the Old City, which has been traditionally divided into four quarters—known since the early 19th century as the Armenian, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Quarters. The Old City became a World Heritage Site in 1981, and is on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Since 1860 Jerusalem has grown far beyond the Old City's boundaries. In 2015, Jerusalem had a population of some 850,000 residents, comprising approximately 200,000 secular Jewish Israelis, 350,000 Haredi Jews and 300,000 Palestinians. In 2011, the population numbered 801,000, of which Jews comprised 497,000 (62%), Muslims 281,000 (35%), Christians 14,000 (around 2%) and 9,000 (1%) were not classified by religion.According to the Bible, King David conquered the city from the Jebusites and established it as the capital of the united kingdom of Israel, and his son, King Solomon, commissioned the building of the First Temple. These foundational events, straddling the dawn of the 1st millennium BCE, assumed central symbolic importance for the Jewish people. The sobriquet of holy city (עיר הקודש, transliterated ‘ir haqodesh) was probably attached to Jerusalem in post-exilic times. The holiness of Jerusalem in Christianity, conserved in the Septuagint which Christians adopted as their own authority, was reinforced by the New Testament account of Jesus's crucifixion there. In Sunni Islam, Jerusalem is the third-holiest city, after Mecca and Medina. In Islamic tradition, in 610 CE it became the first qibla, the focal point for Muslim prayer (salat), and Muhammad made his Night Journey there ten years later, ascending to heaven where he speaks to God, according to the Quran. As a result, despite having an area of only 0.9 square kilometres (0.35 sq mi), the Old City is home to many sites of seminal religious importance, among them the Temple Mount with its Western Wall, Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Outside the Old City stands the Garden Tomb.
Today, the status of Jerusalem remains one of the core issues in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, West Jerusalem was among the areas captured and later annexed by Israel while East Jerusalem, including the Old City, was captured and later annexed by Jordan. Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War and subsequently annexed it into Jerusalem, together with additional surrounding territory. One of Israel's Basic Laws, the 1980 Jerusalem Law, refers to Jerusalem as the country's undivided capital. ...