Editing Neve Yaakov

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[[File:Neve Yaakov sign.jpg|thumb|350px|Entrance to Neve Yaakov]]

'''Neve Yaakov''' ({{langx|he|נווה יעקב}};  also ''Neve Ya'aqov'', lit. Jacob's Oasis) is an [[Israeli settlement]] in [[East Jerusalem]], part of the [[Israeli-occupied territories]], north of the settlement of [[Pisgat Ze'ev]] and south of the [[State of Palestine|Palestinian]] locality of [[al-Ram]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/25/west-bank-settlers |access-date=29 November 2013 |newspaper=The Guardian |title='We were looking for a nice, peaceful place near Jerusalem'}}</ref> Established in 1924 during the period of the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate]], it was depopulated during the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]]. The area was captured by [[Israel]] in the [[Six-Day War]] and a new neighborhood was built nearby, at which time international opposition to its legitimacy began.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://euobserver.com/9/29203 |title=Israeli Settlement Construction in East Jerusalem Draws EU Rebuke |last=Phillips |first=Leigh |date=29 December 2009 |access-date=25 April 2011 |work=EU Observer}}</ref> The international community considers Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem [[International law and Israeli settlements|illegal under international law]], but the Israeli government disputes this,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1682640.stm |title=The Geneva Convention |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=10 December 2009 |access-date=27 November 2010 }}</ref> defining it as a neighborhood within the jurisdiction of the Jerusalem Municipality, which provides all services.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1999/8/Municipal%20Services%20in%20Jerusalem%20-%20Network%20of%20Servi |title=Municipal Services in Jerusalem – Network of Services |date=25 August 1999|access-date=25 April 2011 |publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]}}</ref> The population of Neve Yaakov is 23,300.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jerusaleminstitute.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PUB_505_facts-and-trends_eng_2019_web.pdf|title=Jerusalem Facts and Trends|year=2019|author1=Korach, Michal|author2=Choshen, Maya|publisher=[[Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research]]|page=21|access-date=February 26, 2020}}</ref> Neve Yaakov is one of the [[Ring Settlements, East Jerusalem|Ring Settlements]] of East Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aywnAQAAMAAJ&q=new+periphery |page=xxxi |title=On the National Question |magazine=Israel and Palestine |issue=155–162 |year=1990}}</ref> The settlement is also the location of the IDF's [[Central Command (Israel)|Central Command]] for the [[West Bank]], [[Jerusalem]], [[Sharon, Israel|Sharon]], [[Gush Dan]] and [[Shephelah]].

==History==
[[File:בדרך אל נקודת השמירה בנוה-יעקב-JNF011702.jpeg|thumb|Neve Yaakov 1938]]
[[File:נוה יעקב - מראה-JNF011700.jpeg|thumb|Neve Yaakov 1938]]

Neve Yaakov was established in 1924 on a {{convert|65|dunam}}<ref name="Yossi">{{cite web |url=http://musaf-shabbat.com/2011/07/28/כפר-עברי-ראשון-בהרי-ירושלים-יוסי-שפניי/ |script-title=he:כפר עברי ראשון בהרי ירושלים |language=he |trans-title=Kfar Ivri, The First in the Jerusalem Hills |first=Yossi |last=Shpinner |date=29 July 2011 |access-date=7 May 2012|work=[[Makor Rishon]]}}</ref> parcel of land purchased from Arabs from nearby [[Beit Hanina]] by members of the American [[Mizrachi (religious Zionism)|Mizrachi]] movement.<ref name="guide">Hall, J. ''How "HaKfar HaIvri" Became "Rechov Kfar Ivri"''. ''Shiras Devorah'': Neshei Neve Yaakov newsletter for English-speaking women, Vol. 1, No. 4, Kislev 5759 (December 1998), pp. 15-17.</ref> HaKfar HaIvri Neve Yaakov (The Jewish Village of Neve Yaakov) was named for the leader of the movement, Rabbi [[Yitzchak Yaacov Reines]] (1839–1915).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mizrachi.org/elearning/View_history.asp?id=126 |title=Rav Jacob Reines (1839–1915) |publisher=World Mizrachi Movement |year=2001 |access-date=25 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727090750/http://www.mizrachi.org/elearning/View_history.asp?id=126 |archive-date=27 July 2011 }}</ref> It was an hour's walk to the [[Old City (Jerusalem)|Old City]], where most Jews of Jerusalem lived at the time. Until they were abandoned in 1948, Neve Yaakov and [[Atarot]] were the only Jewish settlements north of the Old City.<ref name="guide" />

The first houses were ready for occupancy in the summer of 1925. The village's [[rav]], Rabbi Yitzchak Avigdor Orenstein, ruled that new homeowners could move into their homes even during [[The Nine Days]], saying that the [[mitzvah]] of settling the [[Land of Israel]] overrode the laws of the mourning period. Rabbi Orenstein himself moved into his new house during The Nine Days, while village administrator Dov Brinker moved his furniture and belongings into his new house on [[Tisha B'Av]] itself.<ref name="Yossi"/>

The village, home to 150 families, suffered from financial problems and lack of a regular water supply. After years of hauling water in buckets from a well six kilometers away, the village received a government water pipeline in 1935. Electricity was hooked up in 1939.<ref name="guide" />

After years of peaceful co-existence with the surrounding Arab villagers, from whom they purchased vegetables, fruit and eggs, the inhabitants of Neve Yaakov were attacked during the [[1929 Palestine riots]], and many families returned to the Old City. According to a [[1931 census of Palestine|census]] conducted in 1931 by the [[Mandate for Palestine|British Mandate authorities]], Neve Yaakov had a population of 101 inhabitants, in 20 houses.<ref name="Census1931">Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas   42]</ref> In the course of the [[1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine]], shots were heard from the Arab side almost every night. The [[Mandate for Palestine|British Mandate]] government supplied a cache of arms to defend Neve Yaakov, and members of the Zionist [[Haganah]] pre-state army moved in to guard the village and its water pipeline.<ref name="guide" />

During the peaceful years from 1940 to 1947, the village operated a school that accepted students from all over the country. Children's summer camps and convalescent facilities were opened, taking advantage of the rural atmosphere and fresh air. Veteran  Jerusalem residents remember hiking to Neve Yaakov to buy fresh milk from dairy farmers.<ref name="guide" />

During the last months of the British Mandate, snipers in Neve Yaakov shot at traffic on the Jerusalem/Ramallah road. In March 1948 the British Army introduced convoys to protect travellers.<ref>Hurnard, Hannah (1997) ''Watchmen on the Walls. An Eyewitness Account of Israel's Fight for Independence from the Journal of Hannah Hurnard.'' CMJ. {{ISBN|0-8054-1399-5}}. pp 45,46,51,58</ref>

When the [[Jordan]]ian [[Arab Legion]] advanced toward Jerusalem from the north during the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]], Neve Yaakov and Atarot were abandoned in the wake of advance warning that they were about to be attacked.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ajhs.org/scholarship/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=285 |title=American Newlyweds in Israel, 1948 |date=11 April 2011 |access-date=25 April 2011 |publisher=[[American Jewish Historical Society]] |archive-date=29 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429081018/http://www.ajhs.org/scholarship/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=285 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="JVLAtarot">>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0002_0_01543.html  Encyclopedia Judaica (2008), ''Atarot'', via Jewish Virtual Library]</ref> Atarot was abandoned on May 17, 1948.<ref name="JVLAtarot"/> The region was occupied by the Jordanians until the 1967 [[Six-Day War]], when Israel captured the Old City and its surroundings.<ref name="guide" />

On 27 January 2023, a Palestinian assailant killed seven Israelis in a [[2023 Neve Yaakov shooting|shooting in Neve Yaakov]].<ref>{{cite news |date=28 January 2023 |title=Jerusalem synagogue attack: Seven killed in shooting |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64430491 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=28 January 2023}}</ref>
[[File:Petrie Park, Neve Yaakov.jpg|225px|right|thumb|Petrie Park in Neve Yaakov]]
According to [[Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem|ARIJ]], Israel has confiscated land from three nearby [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] communities in order to re-establish Neve Yaakov:
*551 dunams from [[Beit Hanina]],<ref name =ARIJHanina14>[http://vprofile.arij.org/jerusalem/pdfs/vprofile/beithanina.pdf Beit Hanina Town Profile], ARIJ, 2012, pp. 13-14</ref>
*385 dunams from [[Hizma]],<ref name=ARIJHizma17>[http://vprofile.arij.org/jerusalem/pdfs/vprofile/Hizma_EN.pdf Hizma Village Profile], ARIJ, 2012, p. 17</ref>
*315 dunums from [[Al-Ram]].<ref name=ARIJRam19>[http://vprofile.arij.org/jerusalem/pdfs/vprofile/Ar%20Ram_EN.pdf Ar Ram Town Profile], ARIJ, 2012, p. 19</ref>

In August 1970 3,500 acres of privately owned and titled Palestinian land was confiscated for "public purposes". On this land, four residential colonies were established including Neve Yaakov with 4,000 apartments.<ref name=IM1983>{{cite journal|last=Mattar|first=Ibrahim|title=From Palestinian to Israeli: Jerusalem 1948-1982|journal=Journal of Palestine Studies|date=Summer 1983|volume=12|issue=4|pages=57–63|doi=10.2307/2536245|jstor=2536245}}</ref> In 1972, a new Israeli neighborhood was constructed on the site of the original village, with 4,900 apartments in [[high-rise]] buildings.<ref name="guide" /> The new neighborhood was populated by Jewish [[immigrant]]s from [[Bukhara]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Latin America]], [[North Africa]], [[France]] and [[Iran]]. In the 1990s, when large waves of [[Russia]]n and [[Ethiopia]]n Jews came to Israel, many settled in Neve Yaakov.<ref name="guide" />

In October 1971, Rabbi [[Meir Kahane]] presented the Minister of Immigrant Absorption, [[Natan Peled]], a memo detailing plans for a community for [[American Jews]] in Neve Yaakov.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kahane|first1=Libby|title=Rabbi Meir Kahane: His Life and Thought Volume One 1932-1975|date=2008|publisher=Urim Publishers|location=Israel|isbn=978-965-524-008-5|page=229}}</ref>

==Demography==
[[File:יער קהילתי פסגת זאב נווה יעק בזרימה - פברואר 2019-1000.jpg|thumb|Neve Yaakov forest]]
In 1982, Kiryat Kaminetz, a housing development on the eastern edge of Neve Yaakov named for the Jewish community of [[Kamyanyets|Kamenets]], [[Poland]] destroyed in the [[Holocaust]], was built on the eastern side of the existing neighborhood. Several hundred apartments were populated by young, [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] Jewish families, many of them from English-speaking countries. In 1992, 700 new apartments were added to Kiryat Kaminetz on the eastern slope of the mountain; this new neighborhood is also known as Neve Yaakov Mizrach (Neve Yaakov East). The latter has a high concentration of [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] and [[Sephardic Haredim|Sephardic Haredi]] families, with a variety of schools and [[synagogue]]s serving each population.

The Haredi character of the neighborhood has expanded further since 2004 with an influx of newlywed couples, both Israeli-born and immigrants from English-speaking countries, to the older sections of Neve Yaakov. This new trend has been characterized by calling the older section the ''Mitchared'' (literally, "Haredization"). In 2009 the Haredi presence in Neve Yaakov was estimated at 900 families.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=33755 |title=N'vei Yaakov's Rolling Shul a Possible Solution |last=Spira |first=Yechiel|work=[[Yeshiva World News]] |date=3 May 2009|access-date=24 May 2009}}</ref>

Figures as of January 2016 from the [[Jerusalem Municipality]] showed a total population of 24,225, of which nearly half are under the age of 21. Seventy-six percent of the population is under the age of 40.<ref name=muni>{{cite web|url=https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/City/Neighborhood/Statistics/Pages/Neve-Yaakov.aspx|title=שכונת נווה יעקב|trans-title=Neve Yaakov Neighborhood|language=he|publisher=Jerusalem Municipality|year=2016|access-date=21 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106071225/https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/City/Neighborhood/Statistics/Pages/Neve-Yaakov.aspx|archive-date=6 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Neve Yaakov is noted as having the largest kindergarten enrollment in the city. The 2016 figures cite 91 percent as being enrolled in Haredi kindergartens. In the elementary school system, 86 percent of children are enrolled in Haredi schools.<ref name=muni/>

==Education==
Neve Yaakov Mizrach is home to two yeshivas catering to American students: [[Yeshivas Bais Yisroel]] and Yeshivas Lev Aryeh.<ref name="guide" />

==See also==
*[[2023 East Jerusalem synagogue shooting]]
[[File:NeveYaakov1.jpg|thumb|900px|center|View of Neve Yaakov from the east]]

==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Neve Yaakov}}
* [http://www.nbn.org.il/component/content/article/1799-neve-yaakov.html Nefesh B'Nefesh Community Guide for Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem]
* [http://www.gojerusalem.com/discover/item_11245/Neve-Yaakov  Go Jerusalem.com guide of Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem]
* [http://www.jerusalemshots.com/Jerusalem_en11-10767.html Photos of Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem]

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