Sur Baher

Sur Baher (Arabic صور باهر, Hebrew צור באהר) is an Arab neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem. It is located southeast of Talpiot and north of the Har Homa neighborhood, down the hill from Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. After the Six-Day War in 1967, it was incorporated in the expanded boundaries of reunified Jerusalem. In 2006, Sur Baher had a population of 15,000. [ [http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/10.1/notes/telefus/telefus.htm Minefield as a School Ground: The Tzur Baher Minefield Clearance Project, by Bentzi Telefus (10.1) ] ]

In 2000, the Israeli government and Jerusalem municipality approved building plans for two new high schools and a youth center. In September 2005, the Jerusalem municipality, in cooperation with the Israel Defense Forces, cleared a Jordanian minefield in Sur Baher. The work, carried out by an Israeli company, was completed by October 2005. [ [http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/10.1/notes/telefus/telefus.htm Minefield as a School Ground: The Tzur Baher Minefield Clearance Project, by Bentzi Telefus (10.1) ] ] In May 2007, the municipality built two schools on the cleared land: a girls school attended by 800 students, and Ibn Rushd, a boys school attended by 700 students. [ "Arnona 2008," newsletter published by the public relations department of the Jerusalem Municipality http://www.jerusalem.muni.il ]

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