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The Mayor's Vision for Jerusalem


(Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Nir Barkat - Jerusalem has a population of 800,000 people today, which will grow to a million people twenty years from now. The current population ratio is one-third Muslim, two-thirds Jewish, and two percent Christian. In the next twenty years, we anticipate a need for 50,000 apartments - one-third for the Arab population and two-thirds for the Jewish population. Jerusalem must stay united. There is not one example in the world of a divided city that ever worked.
2010-08-02 10:08:32
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