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| '''Beit Orot''' ({{lang-he|בית אורות}}) (] The House of Lights), is a new Jewish neighborhood<ref name=Haaretz> | '''Beit Orot''' ({{lang-he|בית אורות}}) (] The House of Lights), is a new Jewish ] and neighborhood<ref name=Haaretz> | ||
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| The purchase of the land that was to become Beit Orot was arranged in 1990 by ], an Israeli politician, and financed by ], an ] philanthropist. The site was chosen for its historic significance: during the ] in 1967, Porat was a paratrooper and his commander, Giora Askenazi, was killed there in the fight for the Old City in Jerusalem.<ref> | The purchase of the land that was to become Beit Orot was arranged in 1990 by ], an Israeli politician, and financed by ], an ] philanthropist. The site was chosen for its historic significance: during the ] in 1967, Porat was a paratrooper and his commander, Giora Askenazi, was killed there in the fight for the Old City in Jerusalem.<ref> | ||
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Beit Orot (Template:Lang-he) (lit. The House of Lights), is a new Jewish settlement and neighborhood on the northern ridge on on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, near the Augusta Victoria Hospital. The Irving Moskowitz Yeshiva & Campus, a Religious Zionist yeshiva, is the nucleus of the neighborhood.
History
The purchase of the land that was to become Beit Orot was arranged in 1990 by Hanan Porat, an Israeli politician, and financed by Irving Moskowitz, an American philanthropist. The site was chosen for its historic significance: during the Six-Day War in 1967, Porat was a paratrooper and his commander, Giora Askenazi, was killed there in the fight for the Old City in Jerusalem. The purchase of the land represented the first Jewish acquisition outside the Old City after the Six Day War. Porat founded Beit Orot together with Benny Elon.
The purchase was controversial, as the site of Beit Orot had originally been planned as a Palestinian school, and the purchase of the land for the yeshiva was opposed by then-mayor Teddy Kollek, but Kollek was soon voted out of office and the purchase allowed to be concluded. The project continues to stir controversy as Palestinian and international authorities decry continued Israeli settlement in Palestinian neighborhoods.
On January 31, 2011, a cornerstone laying ceremony was held for four apartment buildings with a total of 24 homes that are the beginning of the new Jerusalem community of Beit Orot on the Mount of Olives Ridge. In attendance at the ceremony were Knesset members, Jerusalem city councilmen, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and actor Jon Voight.
Jerusalem Day program
Beit Orot hosts a popular program for Jerusalem Day. Beit Orot's location overlooks a panoramic view of the entire city of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the Old City walls. As part of the Jerusalem Day program, there are multiple free guided tours of the Mount of Olives Ridge, the area of the 1967 battle. One tour follows the path that the paratroopers took to the Lion’s Gate on their way to liberating Jerusalem.
References
- ^ Hasson, Nir (31 January 2011). "Officials lay cornerstone for new Jewish East Jerusalem Neighborhood". Haaretz.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/world/middleeast/in-jerusalem-jewish-apartments-in-arab-neighborhoods-complicate-issue.html?_r=0
- Overview at BeitOrot.org
- "The Story of Beit Orot". Beit Orot.
- "Benny Elon, National Union". YNetNews.
- ^ Haberman, Clyde (28 November 1993). "THE WORLD; Hairpin Turns of Peace Lead to Maze Called Jerusalem". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ "Israelis building housing at east Jerusalem school". USA Today. Associated Press. 15 December 2010.
- Beit Orot - Yom Yerushalayim 5771