Sheikh Jarrah is a Palestinian neighborhood to the north of the Old City of Jerusalem
There is a series of plans that seek to penetrate and surround Sheikh Jarrah with Israeli settlements, yeshivas and other Jewish institutions, as well as national park land.
Recently completed projects in the area include the Beit Orot Yeshiva with a number of student and teacher housing units and the adjacent Ein Tzurim National Park.
additional Israeli development plans are being advanced in the Sheikh Jarrah vicinity:
1. Shimon HaTzadik In the western portion of Sheikh Jarrah, lies an 18-dunam (4.5-acre) area known as Shimon HaTzadik . This area has become a focal point of settler development plans in the city. Under contention are approximately 28 residential structures, currently housing descendants of 27 of the Palestinian families who arrived in 1956 and 5-6 settler groups . Since 1972, Israeli settlers have been working to establish Jewish land claims and a Jewish presence in the area, and Palestinian residents have faced legal challenges regarding land ownership and residency rights
2.Shepherd Hotel. Approved in 1984, Town Planning Scheme (TPS) 2591 permits the construction of 20 housing units on the land of the formerly Palestinian-owned Shepherd Hotel property. An additional Town Plan Scheme (TPS 11536) is now being advanced -- to expand on the 1984 plan by building 90 housing units, a synagogue, a kindergarten, and dormitories.
3. Kerem HaMufti. 40-dunam olive grove claimed by Palestinian owners. In 2007, the ILA was discovered to be leasing it to the Ateret Cohanim settlers' organization.
4.The Glassman Campus. On an adjacent Jewish-owned plot, a conference center is planned, called the Glassman Campus.
These plans complement government efforts to ring the Old City with Jewish development, effectively cut it off from Palestinian areas, unilaterally create an integral population link between the Old city and West Jerusalem and thwart the feasibility of future agreed-upon borders for Jerusalem in the context of a two-state resolution.
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