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City Line (Jerusalem)


City Line (Hebrew: הקו העירוני‎‎, Pronounced: HaKav HaIroni) is the name given to a segment of the Green Line that divided the city of Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967. It was 7 km in length, and constituted a temporary boundary line in accordance with Israel's Armistice Agreement with Jordan, which divided the city between East Jerusalem which was part of the Kingdom of Jordan, and West Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel. The Old City bordered the City line on the east side, and thus had been part of the "Jordanian Jerusalem". On both sides of the City line fortifications and obstacles were deployed, and different buildings in the city along the line were used as military posts.

In November 30, 1948, after the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in Jerusalem, Moshe Dayan, commander of the Israeli Etzioni Brigade, and Abdullah el-Tell, the Jordanian commander, met in an abandoned house in Musrara neighborhood. The two officers drew a map at the scale of 1:20,000 which oulined the boundaries of the ceasefire in Jerusalem. Dayan drew in a green wax pencil line the positions under Israeli control, and el-Tell outlined in a red pencil the positions under the Jordanian line. The area between the two lines, along with the thickness of pencils that drew the two lines on the map, determined a No man's land along the lines. At the time, it seemed to the parties that it is a temporary ceasefire line, and thus they attached no special significance to the inaccuracies errors resulting from the thickness of the pencils, slight deviations in the drawings, and segments of discontinuous lines.


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