Once upon a time in Jerusalem,
And this time, the construction of the railway housing in Kiryat Moshe, the beginning of today’s Kanfei Nesharim Street.
Kiryat Moshe was established in 1925 with the help of the “Moshe Montefiore Memorial Fund”, hence its name.
Before the establishment of the neighborhood, the foundation also promoted the establishment of the neighborhoods Mizkeret Moshe, Yamin Moshe, Zichron Moshe, and Ohel Moshe.
From Moshe to Moshe he did not rise like Moses.
The neighborhood was built on 112 dunams purchased by the foundation’s sponsor, Prof. David Yelin, at a price of 100 Israeli pounds.
The small neighborhood was established with regulations for a Hebrew-Jewish neighborhood near Jerusalem,
This is how the first residents of the neighborhood defined themselves, and this is how the location of the neighborhood was perceived in their eyes – on the other side of the mountains of darkness, far far away from the city center.
Near Jerusalem-
True pioneers who went to live in the distant book.
In 1939, 79 families lived in the neighborhood in stone houses.
Over time, the demand increased, and in 1941 the original residents of the neighborhood realized that the number of tenants in the neighborhood should increase.
It’s strange to hear this today, but the residents wrote a letter to the Jerusalem Municipality and in it asked that the neighborhood be annexed to the municipality, and be considered part of the city of Jerusalem.
At the end of the 1930s, the Hamekasher neighborhood was built at the same time,
where the members of the Jerusalem Hamekasher cooperative lived,
In front of the old bus parking lot at the foot of the nation’s buildings and nearby, a worker dormitory neighborhood was established.
In Block No. 4 in the neighborhood, also known as the “Teachers’ Block”, the Minister of Education and Culture Prof. Ben Zion Dinur, the director of the Hebrew Gymnasium, the poet Yitzhak Shalev (and his writer son Meir Shalev), Israel Prize laureates, and other educational and academic figures lived, among others.
The character of the neighborhood changed slowly,
The small stone buildings were replaced by long plaster dwellings,
Names were given to the streets, and in 1964 the Merkaz Rabbi Yeshiva moved to the neighborhood.
Later, the Meir Institute was also established nearby, and the character of the neighborhood attracted the elite of the national religious society, alongside secular and ultra-Orthodox residents, who lived together in harmony.
Since much water had passed into the river,
Today, the red line of the light rail passes next to the neighborhood,
The Hamekasher residences were completely destroyed and two huge 25-story towers were built in their place,
More houses in the neighborhood were demolished and rebuilt, and an accelerated process of construction evacuation is taking place in the green and sleepy neighborhood, which is slowly becoming a center of urban renewal in the west of the city.
The Har Nof neighborhood to the west, and Givat Shaul to the north border the secular and liberal religious neighborhoods in neighborhoods with an ultra-Orthodox population,
And the city changes its face before our amazed eyes.
This is our Jerusalem-
Rivers of pink champagne have been poured since ministers, writers, and professors lived in simple stucco housing without an elevator,
110 dunams of land in Jerusalem purchased for 100 pounds,
A neighborhood for the transport cooperative of the city of that time,
and one Moses Montefiore,
He got into the chariot, giddyup to the horses he said, and left his mark on the city, even today, 120 years later.
Shabbat Shalom to all, far and near, from Jerusalem.
