Jerusalem

===Status under Israeli rule===
Following the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel extended its jurisdiction and administration over East Jerusalem, establishing new municipal borders.
[[File:KnessetBuildingNov152022.jpg|thumb|The [[Knesset]] houses the [[legislature]] of Israel]]
In 2010, Israel approved legislation giving Jerusalem the highest national priority status in Israel. The law prioritized construction throughout the city, and offered grants and tax benefits to residents to make housing, infrastructure, education, employment, business, tourism, and cultural events more affordable. Communications Minister [[Moshe Kahlon]] said that the bill sent "a clear, unequivocal political message that Jerusalem will not be divided", and that "all those within the Palestinian and international community who expect the current Israeli government to accept any demands regarding Israel's sovereignty over its capital are mistaken and misleading".<ref>{{cite web |author=Tzippe Barrow |url=http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/October/Bill-to-Grant-Jerusalem-Priority-Status/ |title=Bill to Grant Jerusalem Priority Status – Inside Israel – CBN News – Christian News 24–7 |publisher=CBN.com |date=25 October 2010 |access-date=28 February 2014 |archive-date=4 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904135513/http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/October/Bill-to-Grant-Jerusalem-Priority-Status/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The status of the city, and especially its holy places, remains a core issue in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Israeli government has approved building plans in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/10/AR2007021001571.html "Jewish Inroads in Muslim Quarter: Settlers' Project to Alter Skyline of Jerusalem's Old City"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402175606/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/10/AR2007021001571.html |date=2 April 2017 }} The Washington Post Foreign Service, 11 February 2007; p. A01</ref> in order to expand the Jewish presence in East Jerusalem, while some Islamic leaders have made claims that Jews have no historical connection to Jerusalem, alleging that the 2,500-year-old Western Wall was constructed as part of a mosque.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=79635 |title=Western Wall was never part of temple |newspaper=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |date=25 October 2007 |access-date=9 December 2012 |first=Mike |last=Seid}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14529 |title=Camp David: An Exchange |journal=The New York Review of Books |date=20 September 2001 |access-date=7 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930193650/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14529 |archive-date=30 September 2009}}</ref> Palestinians regard Jerusalem as the capital of the [[State of Palestine]],<ref name=PalestinianPosition/> and the city's borders have been the subject of bilateral talks. A team of experts assembled by the then Israeli Prime Minister [[Ehud Barak]] in 2000 concluded that the city must be divided, since Israel had failed to achieve any of its national aims there.<ref name=Amirav01a>{{cite book |url={{Google books |id=IH9l4fUKZ_MC |page=28 |plainurl=yes}} |title=Jerusalem Syndrome: The Palestinian-Israeli Battle for the Holy City |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |author=Moshe Amirav |pages=28–29 |date=2009 |isbn=978-1-84519-347-8 |access-date=3 June 2014 |author-link=Moshe Amirav}}</ref> 

However, Israeli Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] said in 2014 that "Jerusalem will never be divided".<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Netanyahu-47-years-ago-Jerusalem-was-reunited-and-thats-how-it-will-stay-354589 |title=Netanyahu: 'Jerusalem is the heart of the nation. We'll never divide our heart.' |newspaper=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |date=28 May 2014 |first=Tovah |last=Lazaroff |access-date=5 June 2014 |archive-date=14 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614120759/https://www.jpost.com/National-News/Netanyahu-47-years-ago-Jerusalem-was-reunited-and-thats-how-it-will-stay-354589 |url-status=live}}</ref> A poll conducted in June 2013 found that 74% of Israeli Jews reject the idea of a Palestinian capital in any portion of Jerusalem, though 72% of the public regarded it as a divided city.<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Post-poll-72-percent-of-Jewish-Israelis-view-Jlem-as-divided-315490 Poll: 72% of Jewish Israelis view J'lem as divided] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016001058/http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Post-poll-72-percent-of-Jewish-Israelis-view-Jlem-as-divided-315490 |date=16 October 2015 }}, Jerusalem Post 5 June 2013</ref> A poll conducted by Palestinian Centre for Public Opinion and American Pechter Middle East Polls for the Council on Foreign Relations, among East Jerusalem Arab residents in 2011 revealed that 39% of East Jerusalem Arab residents would prefer Israeli citizenship contrary to 31% who opted for Palestinian citizenship. According to the poll, 40% of Palestinian residents would prefer to leave their neighbourhoods if they would be placed under Palestinian rule.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4013000,00.html |title=Poll: Jerusalem Arabs prefer Israel |work=Ynetnews |date=20 June 1995 |access-date=7 December 2012 |last1=Benhorin |first1=Yitzhak |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006161751/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4013000,00.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Israel Supreme Court.jpg|thumb|The [[Supreme Court of Israel]]]]