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Beit Safafa
Beit Safafa (Arabic: بيت صفافا, Hebrew: בית צפפה; lit. "House of the summer-houses or narrow benches"[1]) is an Arab neighborhood in southern Jerusalem.[2] Beit Safafa covers an area of 1,577 dunams.[3] Since 1949, the neighborhood has been divided by the Green Line. Until 1967, the southern two-thirds were under Jordanian rule and the northern third under Israeli rule.[2][4] After the Six-Day War, the two sides were reunited. In 2010, Beit Safafa had a population of 5,463.
The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds. It had a population of 41 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, grapes or fruit trees, and goats or beehives.[6] French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1863, and described it as a village with some thirty houses, some solidly built and very old.[7] In the 1883 "Survey of Western Palestine", the village was described as "a small village in flat open ground, with a well to the north........Wikipedia >>