What city does both israel and palestine consider their capital?

Answer 1

Jerusalem is the current and the ancient capital of Israel. The parliament of Israel, the national library, the High Court of Justice, the national museum, main university, and many other national institutions are in Jerusalem. While there is no state called Palestine at this time, there is a claim to Jerusalem made by many Arabs in the region of what was the League of Nations/United Nations Mandate of Palestine which was under British administation until 1948. The presence of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosques on the ancient Temple Mount, and the status of Jerusalem as the 3rd Holy city of Islam, are considered the basis for current Arab claims to Jerusalem in the event that a sovereign country called Palestine is created. The Muslim Arab people who have become known as Palestinians since the mid-20th century date their claim to Jerusalem as a capital to the dramatic rise of Israel in the 20th century, especially since UN-recognized statehood in 1948. During the roughly 1300 years of Muslim Arab and Turkish domination, Jerusalem was never designated as a national capital, nor was it a de facto political center for any people, save for a period of Catholic Crusader domination as the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is called Al-Kuds in Arabic, and both Jews and Arabs currently live there with much tension, but, for the most part, with little actual violence, in contrast to the international media portrayal. Israel allows Muslim control (by the Waqf) of the mosques on the Temple Mount.