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Pfeufer has lived in this city all her life, but until three years ago she had never set foot in East Jerusalem. She is not unusual. In Jerusalem, they have practically built their own city within a city. In order to cloister their way of life from the corruption of secular modern society, they have their own schools, shopping malls, sports clubs, parks and hospitals. Smartphones are outlawed in all schools and most homes, as is the internet.

Women in particular face an endless list of restrictions. The Haredim also happen to be the fastest-growing population in Jerusalem. Pfeufer, meanwhile, is the rarest of gems: The one thing you can say about all Haredi groups is that they build walls. A lucrative market has emerged in Jerusalem creating tech that caters for the ultra-Orthodox, including smartphones with filtering software. There are Haredi people who one day opened the internet and suddenly, boom, the entire world came at them in their early 20s.

That can be very unsettling.

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Pfeufer is a testament to the fact that not all Haredim live within these confines. More ultra-Orthodox men and women are taking degrees and entering the general workplace. Moreover, her politics lean to the left, directly opposing the rightwing nationalist shift in the Haredi community as a whole. But she feels the segregation of the city acutely.

The Clal Centre encapsulates the strange contradictions of Jerusalem. Inside, a shop selling Torah scrolls neighbours a lingerie emporium. Glazberg chose to use its strange neutrality as a place to bring the most contested and holy soil in the city: Glazberg has animated the soil: A couple look at the installation with disbelief and amusement. Yesterday, a Haredi came here and prayed for an hour with closed eyes, so intensely, and when he left he just took a bit of the ashes.

And a Christian woman asked if I could leave some of the earth here, because she wanted to come here again.

People have left me songs they wrote about Jerusalem, really beautiful things. Someone even played the flute. Glazberg laments that few Palestinians have been able to see the work, typical of a liberal Israeli echo chamber. Nor has the reaction been uniformly positive. An ultra-Orthodox friend raised objections. Everyone in Jerusalem puts so much on this land, on this soil, which in the end is just dirt.

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As audiences gather to view an earnest installation involving flags on a rooftop in the Old City, something much more interesting is happening nearby. A group of young Palestinian boys do backflips, jump across the uneven surfaces and vault from dome to dome. On the streets, they get stopped constantly by Israeli police. Up here, the city is theirs. Majd Abuattduan, also 13, butts in. The IDF [Israeli Defence Forces] and the police also bother us a lot less on the roofs, though they do still come round here to tell us to stop.

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Most of us who are doing this sport are trying to keep it healthy and clean — no drugs, no alcohol, no smoking. The boys, between the ages of 13 and 17, first saw parkour videos on Facebook, and were given clothes and some tools for practising by a local NGO. Now they come here almost every day. Even here there are restrictions.

We used to have mattresses around here to practice on, which we used to hide, but they got burned. They look with bemusement at the art that has temporarily taken up residence in the rooftop domain they have long claimed as their own. Soon it will be gone, and they can reclaim their training ground.

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October was the last time Jerusalem was really convulsed by violence. But for Chris Alami, a Palestinian who has lived in the Old City all his life and runs one its most popular youth hostels, it is not religious violence that splinters Jerusalem but economic inequality. The Israeli government is pushing to make its mark on every corner of the city, he says — but it only invests in neighbourhoods without Palestinians.

That tells the Palestinians who live here: While the current consensus is that another intifada is unlikely anytime soon, Alami says the tensions of the city are palpable.

From his roof, which offers one of the best views over the Old City, he points to the churches, mosques and synagogues that are monuments to regimes past and empires fallen. No matter how powerful they were, no matter how great they were, no one has lasted in Jerusalem. In the end, Jerusalem has always belonged to Jerusalemites only.

Follow Guardian Cities on Twitter and Facebook to join the discussion, and explore our archive here. But the reality is a city where the divides are growing deeper by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem; photographs by David Levene. While most responded positively to the concert, the Metropolitan Police grew concerned about noise and traffic issues. As police ascended to the roof, the Beatles realised that the concert would eventually be shut down, but continued to play for several more minutes. The Beatles' rooftop concert marked the end of an era for many fans.

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The group did record one more album, Abbey Road , but by September the Beatles had unofficially disbanded. George Harrison , who guest-starred in the episode, is shown saying dismissively "It's been done! In the film Across The Universe , a musical made up entirely of Beatles' music, Sadie's band performs a rooftop concert in New York City which mimics the original. It is interrupted and closed down by the New York Police Department. U2 also referenced the concert in their video for " Where the Streets Have No Name ", which featured a similar rooftop concert in Los Angeles.

McCartney played a surprise mini-concert in midtown Manhattan on 15 July from the top of the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater , where he was recording a performance for Late Show with David Letterman. News of the event spread via Twitter and word of mouth, and nearby street corners were closed off to accommodate fans for the set, which duplicated the original Beatles gig.

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