Bab Al Huta

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Bab Al Huta is an Arab neighborhood in the Muslim Quarter of the Jerusalem old city that borders the eastern entrance to the Dome of the Rock Mosque complex, and Herod's Gate.

Demographics

The neighborhood is considered one of the poorest areas in the Old City. It is home to the Dom gypsy community of the Old City, known in Arabic as al Nawar, led by mukhtar Abed-Alhakim Mohammed Deeb Salim.^[1][2][3][4]

Around the end of the 19th century, Jews were a majority of Jerusalem's population, and began to spread out of the Jewish Quarter into the Muslim Quarter, including Bab al-Huta. By 1948, however, there were few Jews remaining in the neighborhood. According to Pierre van Paassen, one of the causes of that were that the 1929 riots incited by Haj Amin al-Husseini were directed against the Jews of Bab Al Huta.^[5]

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v t e Neighborhoods of Jerusalem Jerusalem neighborhoods east of the 1949 armistice line (Green Line) are depicted in green Old City Armenian Quarter • Bab Al Huta • Christian Quarter • Jewish Quarter • Muristan • Muslim Quarter Central Neighborhoods Arzei HaBira • Beit Ya'akov • Beit Yisrael • Bukharim • Even Yisrael • Geula • Givat HaVradim • Givat Ram • Katamon • Kerem Avraham • Kiryat HaLeom • Kiryat HaMemshala • Kiryat Shmuel • Ma'alot Dafna • Mahane Israel • Mahane Yehuda • Mazkeret Moshe • Mea Shearim • Mekor Baruch • Mishkenot Sha'ananim • Mount Zion • Musrara • Nahalat Shiv'a • Nachlaot • Nayot • Neve Granot • Neve Sha'anan • Rehavia • Romema • Rova Mevo Ha'ir • Russian Compound • Sha'arei Hesed • Shmuel HaNavi • Talbiya • Yemin Moshe • Zikhron Moshe • Zikhron Yosef Northern Neighborhoods Al-Ram • Batei Ungarin • Beit Hanina • Ezrat Torah • French Hill • Givat HaMivtar • Har Hotzvim • Kafr 'Aqab • Kiryat Belz • Kiryat Mattersdorf • Kiryat Sanz • Mount Scopus • Neve Yaakov • Pisgat Ze'ev • Ramat Eshkol • Ramat Shlomo • Ramot • Ramot Polin • Sanhedria • Sanhedria Murhevet • Shuafat • Tel Arza • Unsdorf Eastern Neighborhoods American Colony • Al Bustan • Al-Issawiya • At-Tur • Bab a-Zahara • Ir David • Jabel Mukaber • Kiryat Menachem Begin • Ma'ale ha-Zeitim • Nachalat Shimon • Nof Zion • Ras al-Amud • Sheikh Jarrah • Shimon HaTzadik • Silwan • Wadi al-Joz Southern Neighborhoods Abu Tor • Arnona • Baka • Beit Safafa • East Talpiot • German Colony • Gilo • Givat HaMatos • Givat Oranim • Givat Massuah • Greek colony • Har Homa • Katamonim • Malha • Mekor Chaim • Pat • Ramat Rachel • San Simon • Sharafat • Sur Baher • Talpiot • Umm Tuba Western Neighborhoods Bayit VeGan • Beit HaKerem • Ein Karem • Givat Beit HaKerem • Givat Shaul • Givat Mordechai • Har Nof • Ir Ganim • Kiryat HaYovel • Kiryat Menachem • Kiryat Moshe• Motza • Ramat Beit HaKerem • Ramat Denya • Ramat Sharett • Yefeh Nof Historic Neighborhoods Atarot • Lifta • Moroccan Quarter • Mamilla • Sheikh Badr See also: Ring Neighborhoods to do: Arab al Sawahira • ash-Shiyah • Batei Munkatch • Batei Nissan Bak • Beit David • Dahiat al-Band • Downtown/Triangle • Ezrat Yisrael • HaKfar HaShvedi • Giv'at HaArba'a • Jabal Batin al Hawa • Kiryat Shomrei Emunim • Kiryat Wolfson • Merhavia • Nachalat Achim • Ohel Shlomo • Machanayim • Nachalat Ya'akov • Shikun Chabad • Shikunei Nuseiba • Umm Lisun • Wadi Qadum