Appendix 13 - The date of the Messiah coming according to Daniel 9-25   Written on the 10/06/2019

Someone will say too quickly: "Jesus himself never set a date for his return."

However, GOD'S WORD in Daniel 9-25, made flesh in the person of JESUS, announces a very specific date for the Return in Glory of the Lord, The Messiah of Israel:

Daniel 9-25 Know it then and understand! From the moment when the word announced that Jerusalem will be rebuilt until the Anointed, the Conductor, seven weeks ago (L. Segond version)

Daniel 9-25 And you will know, and you will hear, that since the coming of the word [bearing] that [they] are returning, and rebuilding Jerusalem, even to Christ the Conductor, there are seven weeks (D. Martin version)

Daniel 9-25 And know, and understand: Since the coming out of the word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the prince, seven weeks ago (J.N. Darby version)

Daniel 9-25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks (King James version)

Daniel 9-25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks (World English Bible version)

Daniel 9-25 ... since the release of the word to make return and build Ieroushalaim (A. Chouraqui version)

=> Return Jerusalem under Israel's authority, then rebuild.

Thus, after the return to Israel of the totality of Jerusalem in 1967, the Israeli competent authority once agreed and announced the beginning of the reconstruction of the Old City of Jerusalem.

From this memorable day, after 7 weeks of years, the Messiah of Israel will be manifested by His Glorious Coming.

What are 7 weeks of God's Time in the End Times:     7 x 7 x 360 days = 17640 days

                                                                                       Or   7 x 7 x 365.2563 days = 17897.56 days

1. When was this memorable day of the decision to rebuild Old Jerusalem?

       Here are the dates found on the Internet with their references in the chapters of the book

According to the dates of the Great Sign we deduce

- The possible dates for The Rapture (1: +720 or +820 days), then

- The possible dates of The Messiah's Coming in Glory (2: +2520 or +2595 days) then

- The possible dates of The Word given for the reconstruction of the Old City of Jerusalem (3: -17640 or -17897 days).

See detailed explanation of the calculations below.

2. When will the Messiah's Comming in Glory to Israel?

a) If the July 8, 1977 date of Approval by the meeting of the Jerusalem Municipal Council of the comprehensive planning program developed by the local planning committee

Is the day of the decision to rebuild old Jerusalem, when will come the Messiah awaited by the Jewish people? His word is unequivocal:

From this memorable day, after 7 weeks of year, the Messiah of Israel would manifest himself by His Glorious Coming.

If 7 weeks of God's Time at the End Times: 7 x 7 x 360 days = 17640 days

The Messiah of Israel would come in Glory on: July 8, 1977 + 17640 days => October 24, 2025

Or

If 7 weeks of God's Time at the End Times: 7 x 7 x 365.2563 days = 17897.56 days

The Messiah of Israel would come in Glory on: July 8, 1977 + 17897.5 days => July 8, 2026

b) If on 30 July 1980 the adoption of the Jerusalem Law in the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset,

Is also the day of the decision to rebuild old Jerusalem, when will the Messiah awaited by the Jewish people? His word is unequivocal:

From this memorable day, after 7 weeks of year, the Messiah of Israel would manifest itself by His Glorious Coming.

If 7 weeks of God's Time at the End Times: 7 x 7 x 360 days = 17640 days

The Messiah of Israel would come in Glory on: July 30, 1980 + 17640 days => November 15, 2028

Or

If 7 weeks of God's Time at the End Times: 7 x 7 x 365.2563 days = 17897.56 days

The Messiah of Israel would come in Glory on: July 30, 1980 + 17897.5 days => July 30, 2029

3. When will Jesus come on the clouds for the Rapture of His Church?

If October 24, 2025 is the day The Glorious Coming of Messiah to Israel,

Jesus will come and take away His Bride the Church on: 24 October 2025 - 2 x 1260 = 2520 days => 30 Nov 2018

Or

If July 8, 2026 is the day The Glorious Coming of Messiah to Israel,

Jesus will come and take away His Bride the Church on: July 8, 2026 - 2 x 1260 = 2520 days => August 14, 2019

                                                                                 or July 8, 2026 -1260-1290 = 2550 days => July 15, 2019

                                                                                 or July 8, 2026 -1260-1335 = 2595 days => May 31, 2019

Or

If the 15th of November 2028 is the day The Glorious Coming of Messiah to Israel,

Jesus will come and take away His Bride the Church on: 15 Nov. 2028 - 2x1260 = 2520 days => 22 December 2021

Or

If July 30, 2029 is the day The Glorious Coming of Messiah to Israel,

Jesus will come and take away His Bride the Church on: July 30, 2029 - 2 x 1260 = 2520 days => September 5, 2022

                                                                                or July 30, 2026 -1260-1290 = 2550 days => August 6, 2022

                                                                                or July 30, 2026 -1260-1335 = 2595 days => June 22, 2022

4. What other possible dates for the Word authorizing Reconstruction?

As long as we do not find the official document allowing the beginning of the work of reconstruction of the Old City of Jerusalem, coming from the competent authority, we will not be able to pronounce with exactitude.

However, since God's Calendar is based with certainty on the Great Sign shown in heaven by God alone, one of the following dates can most certainly be the date of this approval document for initiating the rebuilding:

21/10/1977, 24/10/1977, 29/01/1978, 01/02/1978, 21/04/1978, 24/04/1978, 30/07/1978, 02/08/1978

Dates calculated with 49 x 365.25 days                                   Dates calculated with 49 x 360 days

(The 2 underlined dates are the most plausible)

We are very interested in the presentation of such a document.

5. Internet searches

Surprisingly, this date does not seem easy to highlight, even by personalities very related to the question of the reconstruction of the old city. This date of the Reconstruction Authorization is the date given by the Lord to His people of Israel for the coming of His Messiah. Is it related to the current state of mind of the People of Israel? YES I think so, as long as Joseph's brothers did not repent of the evil done to their younger brother, preferred by their father Jacob, Joseph did not reveal himself to them.

Zechariah 12-9 In that day, I will strive to destroy all the nations that will come against Jerusalem.

10 And I will pour out on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, a spirit of grace and of supplication, and they shall look on Me whom they have pierced. They will weep over Him as we cry over an only son, They will cry bitterly over Him as we cry over a firstborn.

     5-1 Google search for words: old Jerusalem construction december 1970 

• By searching on the internet: "old Jerusalem construction december 1970", we find:

https://placesjournal.org/article/lewis-mumford-on-the-plan-for-jerusalem/?cn-reloaded=1

book: Memorandum on Jerusalem's Plan by Alona NITZAN-SHIFTAN

• Looking for: "1970" after doing a Ctrl F on the document, we find:

Note 1 - The Unilateral Unification of Jerusalem by the Israelis followed the Six-Day War of June 1967. For a detailed history of the events described in this essay, see my book, Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017). For a detailed history of the controversial 1968 Master Plan and the 1970 meeting of the Jerusalem Committee, see especially Chapters 4 and 5.

Reference is made to the book: Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification - Chapters 4 and 5. A book by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan - Architect / Professor in Israel.

Regarding the date on which the competent authority in Jerusalem made the decision to rebuild the old city of Jerusalem reconquered in 1967, we can summarize the answers given in this book:

Here is a SUMMARY of the book Seizing Jerusalem by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, with regard our concern:

The architectural difficulty summarized: The reconstruction planning of Jerusalem was affected by an architectural discipline and a policy in constant evolution after 1967.

• In 1967 Jerusalem was "belatedly thrust into the twentieth century, after being dormant for a few hundred years". (Architectural Design)
• "Jerusalem awaited its twentieth century, its Israeli shape. (Philip Johnson)

A Jerusalem Committee was established in 1969 to oversee the Israeli unification of Jerusalem.

Similarly, a subcommittee on urban planning was created and met for the first time in December 1970

                                                                                         to examine the urban planning of Jerusalem.

1. Before the establishment of the Jerusalem Committee and the Planning Subcommittee

In due course, the Mayor of Jerusalem - Mr Teddy KOLLEK has engaged some of his players in his municipal planning system. Yaakov DASH, the talented head of the Ministry's Planning Division, had worked with Henri KENDALL on the latest British master plan for Jerusalem and was dedicated to his ideas. Eliezer BRUTZKUS, head of planning in Israel, was part of the team of the most environmentally friendly Israeli modernist master plan of 1951.

On June 21, 1967, BRUTZKUS and DASH declared their ambition to prepare the " Outline Scheme " for Jerusalem and spelled out their desired coalition for the most important task of shaping the old city ...

Armed with their concrete vision and design documents, DASH and BRUTZKUS were determined to take control of the historic basin's planning. History proves their great success. Eventually, their visionary plan won the Ministry of the Interior Affairs to control one of the most powerful tools in shaping Jerusalem: the " Outline Scheme " for the Old City and Its Environs, known as "ayin mem 9" , a binding legal document directing the shape of the Holy basin.

The team worked full-time on the "Outline Scheme" from the end of 1968 until it was submitted to the Sub-Committee in December 1970. It will take another six years before the scheme was approved by the National Government.

2. The Jerusalem Committee:

From the beginning, the Jerusalem Committee was a political act. It was an international initiative of Mayor KOLLEK, who attempted to transcend the limits of his political power by inviting, in the summer of 1969, 70 personalities from around the world to oversee the Israeli unification of Jerusalem. With the purpose of commenting and advising on the future of the city, with no formal political power. In order to comment and advise on the future of the city, without any official political power. KOLLEK assured these men and women that "the problem is not ours, as residents of the city; it belongs, in a sense, to the whole world, to all those people who are Jerusalemites in their hearts and minds. KOLLEK happily reported that only one guest had refused to join the committee while East Jerusalem was occupied.

KOLLEK: "This city must live independently of politics," he insisted. "What we want is competent advice on urban planning".

The inaugural plenary session of the Jerusalem Committee, convened on 30 June 1969, was well represented by architects and visual artists alongside many Nobel laureates and dignitaries of the arts, letters and religion.

KOLLEK highlighted the benefits of his cultural policy when he reported to Foreign Minister Golda MEIR on planned talks on "projects we are planning for the city"

KOLLEK (23 June 1969): It seems to me that the mere fact that such personalities have accepted to participate in this type of Committee and are even willing to go to Jerusalem, especially today, when at the United Nations and especially to UNESCO, they fear our right to act in the city - is extremely important.

Golda MEIR (in response on July 1, 1969) asked in return for "publicizing the conference discussions and its constructive results," because these prestigious discussions "that took place in Greater Jerusalem ... provide a definitive answer" to the challenges facing Israel "far from New York".

3. The Planning Subcommittee:

The expectations of the subcommittee meeting of December 1970 were great.

Convened 18 months after the initial meeting of the KOLLEK Jerusalem Committee, the December 1970 meeting of the Urban Planning Subcommittee was a rather unusual event. Mayor KOLLEK convinced the five leading Israeli planning bodies to voluntarily submit their

• Coordinated Master Plan for Jerusalem of 1968 and its 3 complements:
  • Plans of the Old City and Its Surroundings
  • Plans for the West Jerusalem CBD (Central Business District)
  • Plans for transport (useful from 1985)

      the in-depth review by the 31 foreign examiners of the subcommittee from 9 countries.

Subsequently, the 31 foreign examiners of the subcommittee informed KOLLEK how "impressed" they were by "the willingness of your staff to present the plan frankly and openly, and to submit their intellectual reflections to the assault of foreigners ".

On Saturday, December 19, 1970, these 31 members met in Jerusalem for 3 days (19-20-21 /12/1970) for:

Plan the spirit and character of Jerusalem.

The resolutions then adopted by the subcommittee in December 1970 were far-reaching, providing for an urban planning model:

This plan highlighted the physical principles, a set of planning guidelines so firm that they will directly generate a large city plan as it evolves and become embedded in functional issues as well social, economic, emotional and symbolic that an agreement between them could be gradually acquired.

4. The following emerged from these first meetings:

• Coordinated Master Plan for Jerusalem, 1968, submitted and approved by the Subcommittee in December 1970, and its 3 supplements:
  • Plans of the Old City => A master plan was submitted for public consultation on 24/12/1970 and the District Planning Commission ratified the plan dated 31/03/1977.
  • Plans of the Old City surroundings => guidelines for landscaping Jerusalem
  • CBD plans in West Jerusalem (Central Business District) => It will take another 6 years for the system to be approved by the national government.
  • Plans for transport (useful from 1985)

5. CONCLUSION:

Regarding the Old City of Jerusalem, an agreement emerged from these 3 days of meeting dated 19-20-21 / 12/1970 from the Sub-Committee, a master plan was submitted for public consultation on 24/12/1970 and

(The following is italicized because no document in our possession proves it) the District Planning Commission ratified the plan dated 31/03/1977.

Finally the reconstruction of the Old City of Jerusalem could be officially started, and as early as Friday, 1 April 1977, the competent authorities of the city were able to start the work.

6. Notes:

• On May 5, 1977, the State of Israel formally approved Safdie's design of The Western Wall.
• Legislative elections were held in Israel on May 17, 1977 to elect the Ninth Knesset. For the first time in Israeli political history, the Likud-led right has won several seats, ending nearly 30 years of rule by the Left Alignment and its predecessor, Mapai.
• When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat visited Jerusalem on November 20, 1977, a new chapter of Arab-Israeli negotiations was opened.

• On 30 July 1980, Geula Cohen of Likud - the right-wing party that ended the socialist regime in Israel in 1977 - successfully passed the Jerusalem law in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. This basic law, as defined, declares that Jerusalem "one and indivisible" ("reunited"), is the capital of Israel.

Psalm 122-3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together.

Under Jordanian occupation from 1948 to 1967, the conquest of East Jerusalem (about 6 Km², compared to West Jerusalem: about 40 Km²) from June 7, 1967, during the Six Day War allowed Israelis to consider that the city was de facto reunited. In June 1967, the Knesset had already passed a law on the new Jerusalem area and the new authority given to the municipality to manage the whole of Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Act also deals with:

o the location of Israeli institutions in the city of Jerusalem;

o the holy places of the city and the rights of members of all religions;

o the development of the city.

This decision is condemned by Resolutions 476 and 478 of the United Nations Security Council which state that:

"The adoption of the" Basic Law "by Israel constitutes a violation of international law and does not affect the maintenance of the Geneva Convention (...) in the Palestinian territories and other Arab territories occupied since June 1967, including Jerusalem "

7. The District Planning Commission ratified the plan dated March 31, 1977.

The following follows a personal emails exchange with Mike TURNER:

       As mentioned by Alona NITZAN-SHIFTAN in her book Memorandum on the Jerusalem Plan:

"I am also grateful to Michael Turner, architect, educator and extraordinary civil servant who shared with me his valuable information about Mumford and the Jerusalem Committee. "

The following is italicized because no document in our possession proves it, not yet.

The District Planning Commission ratified the plan dated 31/03/1977.

Note D.C. : Finally, the reconstruction of the Old City of Jerusalem could be officially started, and as early as Friday, 1 April 1977, the competent authorities of the city were able to start the work.

The Old City Master Plan (TPS 13538): From Professional Planning to Political Exécution

http://www.ir-amim.org.il/sites/default/files/Old%20City%20Master%20Plan.pdf

On December 19, 2012 Plan No. 13538, “Conditions for Issuing Building Permits for the Old City of Jerusalem," was raised for discussion at the Jerusalem Local Planning and Building Committee after its submission by the Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA), which maintains administrative authority over the plan.

Professor Mike Turner, former chairman of UNESCO in Israel, served as an advisor in the plan’s preparation, the stated rationale for which is that the existing master plan, עמ/9 (ain mem/9), does not allow for issuance of building permits for the Old City without the submission of detailed plans. Because the process for preparation of detailed plans in the Old City is an extremely complicated, time consuming and expensive one, it is virtually impossible to obtain a building permit. In fact, most of the new construction in the Old City over the past several decades, including infrastructure works and the development of public spaces by the JDA and the Municipality, have been carried out without permits and therefore in violation of the law. According to Ir Amim’s investigation, due to the onerous process required to prepare detailed plans, since 1974 only six applications for building permits in the Muslim quarter have been submitted to the planning committees. Five of those were submitted by Israeli institutions or individuals and only one by a Palestinian resident. As a result, there is a proliferation of unlicensed construction conducted in the absence of comprehensive planning, with Palestinian families consequently living under the constant danger of home demolitions.

     5-2  Google search for words: Jerusalem 1967-1977 

Book : Israelizing Jerusalem - The Encounter Between Architectural and National Ideologies 1967-1977

By Alona Nitzan-Shiftan September 2002

https://www.academia.edu/30991825/Israelizing_Jerusalem_-_The_Encounter_Between_Architectural_and_National_Ideologies_1967-1977

Resume with regard our concern :

P98 : The Architectural Mandate :

Western Jerusalem, known in Hebrew by its biblical name, Yerushalayim, was built mostly in the 20th century and in a modernist architectural style. In contrast, East Jerusalem, known in Arabicas El-Quds (The Holly), was indisputably ancient.

The 2 Jerusalems required different methods for managing their built environments. This situation thus presented to Jerusalem’s planners au unsubtl dilemna. Had they enacted in Jerusalem the Israeli modernist building program set in the years the state was built, they would have deepened the rift between the 2 cities they attempted to unite : Yerushalayim, created of « westernized éléments », and El-Quds, of the « Orient and the spiritual ». Even more confusing was the pressing need to adopt this Orient as a « home » to witch the Jewish people were to return, either after nineteen years of Jordanian rule, or, more symbolically, after 2,000 years of exilic absence.

P102 : New beginnings

Meanwhile, the Minister of Housing decided on a new guideline ; hoping to possess East Jerusalem not only territorially, but symbolically, he asked the Ministry’s planners to build the new neigborhoods in « Oriental Style ». Yehuda DREXLER, the architect in charge of Jerusalem in the Ministry of Housingbetween 1967 and 1974, undertook the challenge.

     5-3  Google search for words: November 1977 Jerusalem plan validation

A Policy of Discrimination: Land Expropriation, Planning and Building in East Jerusalem

https://www.btselem.org/download/199505_policy_of_discrimination_eng.doc

Page 34 : Achieving control in both parts of the city appears both in statements by policymakers, and in publications of the Jerusalem municipality to be one of the major planning goals for the city. In 1975, the Local Planning Committee prepared a comprehensive town planning scheme. The plan, which covered the entire city, underwent many revisions; it was never given final approval,⁷⁰  but its principles have in large measure guided planning policy in the city.  Presenting the plan to the Municipal Council in 1977, then-mayor Kollek stated:

These are principles whose implementation will determine the shape of the city until the year 2000. The plan lays down the shape of the city's entire area of jurisdiction, the location of the residential neighborhoods, the commercial centers, the institutions of government, research and culture, and the industrial zone and open areas throughout the entire city. The plan's main purpose is to ensure the preservation of Jerusalem's distinctiveness as the capital of Israel, a holy city and place of pilgrimage as a spiritual center, a city with a special cultural and historical character - and all this can be preserved only if the city remains unified under Israeli rule.

There is something symbolic in the fact that we are presenting the plan for the Council's approval precisely on the tenth anniversary of the city's unification. We believe that by approving the plan, we are giving expression to our control throughout the entire city and are affirming principles for the continuing intensification of the city's unification.⁷²

⁷⁰  The plan was approved by the Local Committee on 8 July 1977, but the approval process was halted by the District Committee.

⁷² Minutes of Jerusalem Municipal Council meeting, 6 July 1977, Report 65, p. 8.(translated by B’Tselem, our emphasis)

Page 55 : Delays in Preparing Town Planning Schemes

As mentioned, the law obligates the Local Committee to prepare a TPS for the planning area and to submit it to the District Committee for deposition within three years of its publication. The District Committee then has one year to approve of reject the plan.  However, in many cases the preparation of town planning schemes for Palestinian neighborhoods has taken many more years than what the law stipulates, as the following examples show.  :

• Plan No. 2683A - 'Arab es-Swahrah - Planning process began in 1979. No approved plan to date.
• Plan No. 2317 - Beit Safafa - Approval procedure began in November 1977. Plan approved in December, 1990.
• Plan No. 1864a - Abu Tor - Approval procedure began in December 1977. Plan approved in June, 1989.

     5-4  Google search for words: Government 1977 Jerusalem plan validation

1. Israel's Foreign Relations Vols 4-5: 1977-1979

https://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/mfadocuments/yearbook3/pages/table%20of%20contents.aspx

Government statement on recognition of three settlements, 26 July 1977.

1. 23. Government statement on recognition of three settlements, 26 July 1977.

2. The Likud election platform declared that the entire historic Land of Israel is the inalienable heritage of the Jewish people, and that no part of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) should be handed over to foreign rule. Shortly after the elections to the Ninth Knesset, Mr. Begin visited Elon Moreh in Samaria and declared his support for additional settlements in that area. While in the U.S., the Prime Minister reiterated his view that Jews have the right to settle and live in every part of the country. Following Mr. Begin's return from the U.S., the Ministerial Committee on Settlements, conferred legal status on three settlements in the West Bank established during the previous government's term of office.

3. The joint Government-World Zionist Organization Settlement Affairs Committee today decided to recognize Ma'aleh Adumim, Ofra and Elon Moreh as full-fledged settlements, and charged the settlement institutions with granting them commensurate treatment.

2. The district master plan of Jerusalem

The district of Jerusalem was the first where the district master plan was approuved in 1977, 12 years after passing  of the Planning and Building Law.                  

https://books.google.fr/books?id=A5MwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=Master+Plan+Jerusalem+settlement+1977&source=bl&ots=MyTgUMsE-w&sig=ACfU3U3L83W-2cqStZhIXtK3sWmRZDcQ9g&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTtdLmpNniAhWJ1uAKHQzDAl4Q6AEwD3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Master%20Plan%20Jerusalem%20settlement%201977&f=false

     5-5  Google search for words: Excavations 1970 Jerusalem

Excavations in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem : First season lasting from April to November, 1970.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27925228.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

     5-6  Israeli Policy, Planning and Development in the Palestinian Neighborhoods of East Jerusalem

http://bimkom.org/eng/wp-content/uploads/TrappedbyPlanning.pdf  

The first and most significant plan drawn up and validated by the end of the first decade after the annexation was Plan EJ/9 35 for the Visual Basin of the Old City, which redefined the Visual Basin of the Old City and stipulated the development possibilities in the area  (EJ9 : with initials denoting that they were located in East Jerusalem.) Most of the land included in Plan EJ/9 was zoned as open space of various kinds, all of which were subject to an almost complete prohibition on construction.⁴¹ The few development areas that do appear in the plan are located where villages or housing clusters already existed prior to the preparation of the plan.

     Map 3 Planned Area during the First Decade 1967-1977

              Map 4 Plan EJ/9

⁴¹ The plans include a few different types of open areas: Open Public Area, Open Private Area, Open Scenic Area, Antiquities Site, National Park, Nature Reserve, and more. The types of open areas are distinguished from one another in terms of land ownership, responsibility for development of the area, and the permitted uses on it.

One of the plans that preceded Plan EJ/9 was Plan EJ/6. The entire purpose of this plan was to set the boundaries of the so-called National Park Surrounding the Old City Walls. The Israel National Parks Authority (INPA) initiated this plan shortly after the 1967 war, and it was deposited in December 1968.36 The plan is extremely general; its directives deal exclusively with the preservation of the area for the national park, and the blueprint primarily sketches the blue line that delineates the area of the national park.37 Plan EJ/6 provided the basis for the declaration plan for the national park (Plan C/11/19). The declaration of the National Park Surrounding the Old City was done in 1974 by then Minister of Interior, Yosef Burg.

The Old City Basin

In the original version of the Jerusalem 2000 Outline Plan, there was no separate chapter devoted to the visual basin of the Old City. However, when Nir Barkat began as mayor at the end of 2008 and placed tourism at the top of his priorities in the city, the area was given special treatment. The Old City and the surrounding visual basin were designated as a national tourist anchor that would bring millions of tourists to Jerusalem.

The heavy price of the transformation of the Old City into a national project is paid by the Palestinian residents of the neighborhoods in the area. The new outline plan allows virtually no development for these neighborhoods, and moreover, the plan ignores existing construction and continues to zone densely built-up areas as open areas. Among all of the Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, those in the visual basin of the Old City contain the highest proportion of houses built without permits on land zoned as open space. The outline plan proposes no solution for these neighborhoods, and it is there that the danger of home demolitions looms largest. This is also the area with the highest concentration of Israeli tourist development initiatives, by and in cooperation with settler organizations seeking to judaize the Palestinian neighborhoods. The unprecedented development boom in tourist sites, along with landscape development and expansion of Israeli settlements, stands out sorely against the insurmountable obstacles placed on Palestinian development in the visual basin of the Old City.

Upon the completion of Plan EJ/9, the Jerusalem Municipality began to draw up plans for those neighborhoods surrounding the Old City whose small housing clusters had already been zoned as residential in Plan EJ/9. Effectively, these plans constitute amendments to Plan EJ/9, providing a more detailed zoning for the residential areas, though not all of these plans were detailed enough for the granting of building permits.43 The neighborhoods planned in the second decade after 1967 are ash-Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan al-Wusta, Jabal al-Mokabber, ath-Thori (Abu Thor), and as-Suwwanah. Additional plans were approved for some Palestinian villages outside of the area of the Visual Basin of the Old City, and which had not been included in Plan EJ/9.

     5-7  Google search for words: Plan Old City Jerusalem 1977 1978

1. A national park on the Mount of Olives

https://www.btselem.org/jerusalem/national_parks_in_planning

The Jerusalem Municipality mapped out an area spanning about 47 hectares in the environs of the Mount of Olives for a national park. The park borders Jerusalem Walls National Park in the west, and it has a northern offshoot that borders Tzurim Valley Park. The park is adjacent to the a-Sawaneh neighborhood to the south and west, and another offshoot borders a-Shayah neighborhood to the west. 

Under the plans currently en effect in the area, the site indicated for the park is designated as open public space, with some parts, where monasteries and churches are located, are zoned for public structures and institutions. The area also contains residential buildings. The amended Jerusalem 2000 plan also designates most of the site as open space. Although the plan for the national park has not yet been approved, the NPA has been carrying out development and clean-up operations there since 2008, which include building terraces and paths along the Kidron Valley.

The a-Sawaneh neighborhood is home to some 3,000 residents. The master plans applicable to the neighborhood, in force since 1977, allowed for very limited construction and most of the area they designate as residential is already built-up. The large open space in the northern section of the neighborhood was declared Tzurim Valley National Park. The park being planned by the municipality for the Mount of Olives envelopes the neighborhood from the south and west. Together, the two parks block the neighborhood from almost all directions, leaving no avenue for development.

2. HERITAGE IN CONFLICT - Critical Analysis of Approaches to Built Heritage in the Old City of Al Quds/Jerusalem

file:///D:/1/1%20DC/1%20Version%20finale%20du%20Livre/Jerusalem%20Reconstruction/Heritage_in_Conflict_Critical_Analysis_o.pdf

Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem:

In charge of planning, construction and protection of cultural heritage in the Old City of Al Quds/Jerusalem, one of the initial activities of the Israeli Municipality was the preparation of a Master Plan that included all the expanded areas of Jerusalem. This Jerusalem Master Plan approved in 1978 included special instructions and regulations related to the Old City. The plan primarily restricted the Old City to religious institutions, while allowing it to be used as a special residential area (Shragai, 2010). Furthermore, it divided the into two priority areas for restoration; the first is the Muslim Quarter, extending to al-Buraq (Wailing) Wall, al-Maghariba (Moroccan) and alSharaf neighborhoods. The Armenian and Christian Quarters were considered second priority for intervention. Thus, this master plan was the initial step to raise the efforts of the Municipality to dominate the Muslim quarters and legitimize their activities involving excavations and new constructions.