Originally posted by sh76
If you lived in Israel for 4 years, you must have noticed that the Parliament building is in Jerusalem, the PM lives in Jerusalem and the important government ministerial offices are all in Jerusalem.
http://www.pm.gov.il/PMOEng/Government/Offices/
Notice the phone number prefixes. 02 is Jerusalem. Tel Aviv is 03.
Israel has treated Jerusalem as its ca ...[text shortened]... zarre.
Edit: Read the article I cited above. It's an excellent discussion of this issue.
I realize that, the knesset being in Jerusalem, watched fireworks displays there several times, which was interesting because the flaming pieces came down on the crowd and nearby trees where they had to have an active firefighting crew moping up the flames...
It still is not counted as the official capital which is why the US embassy is in Tel Aviv.
I lived in Abu Tor, up the top of the hill overlooking the so called 'peace' forest, which was set fire to by Palestinian kids about 5 times a year. They never learned though, that those trees were almost impossible to set fire so only a bit of brush actually burned.
One time, while we were having a great music party, one Palestinian kid tried to steal my kids (6 yo) bicycles right in front of the party guests.
I worked at Intel as a contractor for Varian and Associates on a semiconductor manufacturing machine called an ion implanter, a very large energy intensive ion accelerator used to dope silicon into submission🙂 (become a semiconductor, where the pure silicon is a great insulator, although not as good an insulator as silicon dioxide (sand or glass, take your pick).
One of my kids graduated from HS there, the Anglican International School, right up the street from the Russian embassy. I guess they didn't care if the Palestinians were upset....