Sentence examples for jerusalemites from inspiring English sources

Jerusalemites said the violence was as bad as any they had experienced since Israel supressed the last Intifada in 2004.

Many Jerusalemites feel affronted each time they look up at the Holyland Project, a string of four high-rise buildings tearing through the skyline on the western hilltops edging the city.

Two years ago Israeli border officials began stamping his American passport instead of the laissez-passer that Israel issues to Arab Jerusalemites.

But the barrier will still sever economic and social ties between Palestinians inside and outside its confines.In addition, says Orna Kohn of Adalah, a legal-advice centre for Arabs, this summer the army is expected to start enforcing more stringently the ban on Israelis visiting Palestinian-controlled areas, which up to now has been ignored for non-Jewish Jerusalemites.

He describes the fears of secular Jerusalemites at the ultra-Orthodox population explosion as "not free of anti-Semitic undertones".David Grossman, a widely acclaimed novelist, recently lashed out in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth against fellow intellectuals who "regard any religious person with uncompromising hostility, which is effectively a form of racism".

Last year's spike in revocations, the interior ministry wrote to B'Tselem, an Israeli human-rights group, was because of "an improvement in working procedures and control at the ministry, above all at border crossings".Even so, Arab Jerusalemites can get their residency back if they have visited Israel at least once every three years.

The turnout was 38%, which, factoring out the Palestinian boycott, was actually much higher than the national average.This time, with both sides vigorously knocking on doors and Mr Barkat's campaign even busing ex-Jerusalemites up from Tel Aviv to vote, 41% of eligible voters turned out, or about 60% of the city's Jews.

After the 1993 Oslo Accords, the PLO was marginalised, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) was recognised as representing West Bank and Gaza Palestinians (but not East-Jerusalemites although they voted in PA elections).

At the rally, with tears in her eyes, Tobi Willig, an elderly American-born Jerusalemite, surveyed the crowd.

The future will be their problem," says an East Jerusalemite who believes that, although Israel holds all the best cards at present, the Palestinians have demography and determination on their side, and it is these that will tell in the end.

Many of the children had vacant hollow eyes, staring at the walls oblivious to their many East Jerusalemite visitors.