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Residents pay taxes, and following a Israeli Supreme Court ruling, East Jerusalem residents are guaranteed the right to social security benefits and state health care. Until , those who lived abroad for more than seven years or obtained residency or citizenship in another country were deemed liable to lose their residency status.
In , Israel began revoking permanent residency status from former Arab residents of Jerusalem who could not prove that their "center of life" was still in Jerusalem. This policy was rescinded four years later. In March , the Minister of the Interior, Natan Sharansky , stated that the "quiet deportation" policy would cease, the prior policy would be restored, and Arab natives to Jerusalem would be able to regain residency [73] if they could prove that they have visited Israel at least once every three years.
Since December , permanent residency of more than 3, individuals "expired", leaving them with neither citizenship nor residency. According to the Israeli non-governmental organization B'Tselem, since the s, policies that made construction permits harder to obtain for Arab residents have caused a housing shortage that forces many of them to seek housing outside East Jerusalem.
Many have left Jerusalem in search of work abroad, as, in the aftermath of the Second Intifada , East Jerusalem has increasingly been cut off from the West Bank and thereby has lost its main economic hub. Israeli journalist Shahar Ilan argues that this outmigration has led many Palestinians in East Jerusalem to lose their permanent residency status. Breger, such restrictions on Palestinian planning and development in East Jerusalem are part of Israel's policy of promoting a Jewish majority in the city.
On 13 May , the Israeli Cabinet began discussion regarding a proposition to expand Israel's presence in East Jerusalem and boost its economy so as to attract Jewish settlers. To facilitate more Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, the Cabinet is now considering an approximately 5. Plans to construct 25, Jewish homes in East Jerusalem are in the development stages. As Arab residents are hard-pressed to obtain building permits to develop existing infrastructure or housing in East Jerusalem, this proposition has received much criticism.
According to Justus Weiner of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs , the Jerusalem municipality granted the Arab sector 36, building permits, "more than enough to meet the needs of Arab residents through legal construction until ". Weiner writes that while illegal Jewish construction typically involves additions to existing legal structures, illegal Arab construction involves the construction of entire multi-floor buildings with 4 to 25 living units, built with financial assistance from the Palestinian National Authority on land not owned by the builder.
Jewish neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem have 30 times the number of playgrounds that Palestinian areas have. One was built for the 40, strong community of Sur Baher with foreign funding in after a Jerusalem court directed the municipal council to begin constructing them.
It was constructed without a permit, and the Israeli authorities say the difference is due to the difficulty of finding vacant lots suitable to playgrounds in the Arab sectors. In the census, the Israeli authorities registered 66, Palestinian residents 44, residing in the area known before the war as East Jerusalem; and 22,, in the West Bank area annexed to Jerusalem after the war.
Only a few hundred Jews were living in East Jerusalem at that time, since most Jews had been expelled in during the Jordanian rule. By June , a Jewish majority was established in East Jerusalem: The Old City including the already mentioned Muslim Quarter has an Arab population of 36, and a Jewish population of 3, Until , residents of East Jerusalem were disadvantaged in terms of healthcare service and providers.
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By , almost every neighborhood in East Jerusalem had health clinics that included advanced medical equipment, specialized ER units, X-ray diagnostic centers and dental clinics. According to Haaretz , the quality of healthcare centers between Israeli cities and East Jerusalem are almost equal. The health quality indices in East Jerusalem increased from a grade of 74 in to 87 in , which is the same quality grade the clinics in West Jerusalem received. Jerusalem was designated the Arab Capital of Culture in The Minister instructed Israel Police to "suppress any attempts by the PA to hold events in Jerusalem and throughout the rest of the country".
The minister issued the ban on the basis that the events would be a violation of a clause in the interim agreement between Israel and the Palestinians that forbids the Palestinian Authority PA from organizing events in Israeli territory. On 22 June , the Israeli Public Security Minister closed the El-Hakawati Theater for eight days, to prevent a puppet theater festival with an year tradition.
Israel Security Agency Shin Bet accused the Palestinian Authority of funding the child-festival, which was denied by the theater director.
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Nevertheless, after the musicians had climbed over the Separation Wall , the concert eventually took place. East Jerusalem residents are increasingly becoming integrated into Israeli society. Trends among East Jerusalem residents have shown: According to the Israeli Education Ministry, the number of East Jerusalem high school students who took Israeli matriculation exams rose from 5, in to 6, in East Jerusalem has a shortage of schools for Palestinian children.
In , the classroom shortage was reportedly 1,, due to what Haaretz described as "years of intentional neglect of East Jerusalem schools, which serve the Arab population by the Education Ministry and the city".
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