Shimon HaTzadik
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Shimon HaTzadik is a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem
, established around the Tomb of Simeon the Just
, after whom it was named. The tomb and surrounding lands (a plot of approximately 18 dunams) was purchased in 1876 by the committee of the Sephardic community and the Ashkenazi Assembly of Israel.
In fact, starting shortly after the UN General Assembly recommended partition of the country into a Jewish state and an Arab state, the Shimon haTsadiq and Nahalat Shimon neighborhoods, close to the Tomb, on the way to Mount Scopus, were claimed by the Israelis though the UN General Assembly did not include it in the partitioning plan as a Jewish area.
East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem refer to the parts of Jerusalem captured and annexed by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and then captured and annexed by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War...
, established around the Tomb of Simeon the Just
Tomb of Simeon the Just
The Tomb of Simeon the Just is an ancient tomb in Jerusalem believed to be the burial place of Simeon the Just.-History:The tomb is located in the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood adjoining Sheikh Jarrah. According to a long-standing Jewish tradition, it is the tomb of Simeon the Just and his students...
, after whom it was named. The tomb and surrounding lands (a plot of approximately 18 dunams) was purchased in 1876 by the committee of the Sephardic community and the Ashkenazi Assembly of Israel.
In fact, starting shortly after the UN General Assembly recommended partition of the country into a Jewish state and an Arab state, the Shimon haTsadiq and Nahalat Shimon neighborhoods, close to the Tomb, on the way to Mount Scopus, were claimed by the Israelis though the UN General Assembly did not include it in the partitioning plan as a Jewish area.
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- http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251145166123&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull East Jerusalem's lost years
- http://www.think-israel.org/green.frenchjerusalem.html This article points out that the Jewish population was driven out of the Shim`on haTsadiq Quarter in late December 1947. The article focusses on a Jewish historical site nearby in "East Jerusalem," the Tombs of the Kings, the tombs of the royal family of Adiabene that converted to Judaism and moved to Jerusalem in the late Second Temple Period. The article was first published in Midstream.