page_title: Judaization of Jerusalem
section_title: West Bank barrier
hierarchical_section_title: Judaization of Jerusalem / Alleged Judaization under Israeli occupation and annexation / West Bank barrier
caption_attribution_description: English: Israeli signage on separation wall in Occupied Palestinian Territories.
context_page_description: Judaization of Jerusalem is the view that Israel has sought to transform the physical and demographic landscape of Jerusalem to enhance its Jewish character at the expense of its Muslim and Christian ones. This also often involves the increasing Jewish presence in Jerusalem in the modern era, referring to the Jewish Old Yishuv becoming increasingly dominant since the Ottoman era; this process continued until it became the largest ethno-religious group in Jerusalem since the mid-19th century and until the 1948 War, when Jordan cleansed Eastern Jerusalem from its Jewish presence.
context_section_description: Surrounding Arab villages, who traditionally have close cultural and economic connections with Jerusalem, are cut off from the city by the Israeli West Bank barrier. At the same time, the wall tightens major Jewish population centres to Jerusalem, like Giv'at Ze'ev, Ma'ale Adumim and Gush Etzion, who are currently not included in the Jerusalem municipality but located on the Jerusalem side of the Wall.
caption: Israeli separation wall, cutting off Bethlehem from Jerusalem.
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