Neve Yaakov

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Neve Yaakov (Hebrew: נווה יעקב; also Neve Ya'aqov, lit.

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.

Neve Yaakov was established in 1924 on a 65 dunams (0.065 km2; 0.025 sq mi)[7] parcel of land purchased from Arabs from nearby Beit Hanina by members of the American Mizrachi movement.

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.

[8] 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.

The 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.

Veteran Jerusalem residents remember hiking to Neve Yaakov to buy fresh milk from dairy farmers.

[8] The new neighborhood was populated by Jewish immigrants from Bukhara, Georgia, Latin America, North Africa, France and Iran.

[8] 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.

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.