- Beit Safafa
Beit Safafa ( _ar. بيت صفافا, _he. בית צפאפא) is an Arab neighborhood in southeastern
Jerusalem midway between Patt andGilo , on the outskirts ofBethlehem . [New architecture in Beit Safafa http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/arts/design/16arch.html?pagewanted=all] Beit Safafa had a population of 5,463 in 2000. It covers an area of 1,577dunam s. [ [http://www.fmep.org/settlement_info/stats_data/jerusalem/population_east_jerusalem_2000.html Foundation for Middle East Peace - Population in East Jerusalem, 2000 ] ]In the wake of the
1948 Arab-Israeli War , the neighborhood was divided - with half inno man's land and the other half in the Jordanian-occupied West Bank. In 1967, afterIsrael 's victory in theSix-Day War , the two parts of Beit Safafa were reunited.In 1997, the Hand in Hand School for Bilingual Education was founded in Beit Safafa. The school, supported by the Israeli Ministry of Education and the Jerusalem Municipality, offers a bilingual curriculum in Hebrew and Arabic, with joint classes for Jewish and Arab children. A new school campus was inaugurated in October 2007. The student population in 2007-2008 was 410, half Jewish and half Arab. [ [http://www.jerusalemfoundation.org/english/print.php?id=812&from=article The Jerusalem Foundation ] ]
Notable residents
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Sayed Kashua References
External links
* Article on the architect Senan Abdelqader, a resident of Beit Safafa http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/797962.html
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