Méa Shéarim
Méa Shéarim is a district in the North of Jerusalem. It is very known because it is a district where live only Jewish ultra orthodoxe. Signs invite the visitors not to return in this district vêtues in an “indecent” way.
History
Méa Shéarim means hundred doors in Hebrew. The name refers to the hundred main doors evoked in the Torah and corresponded to the weekly section read with the Synagog the week when the district was created.
Built during the 19th century because the life in the Old city of Jerusalem was too uncomfortable, the district was composed of small houses of two parts for ten people each one which, tightened the ones against the others, formed a natural rampart. The schools were in the old city. The war of 1948 gave to Israel Méa Shéarim, while the old city fallen with the hand from the Arab was emptied of its Juif S, and that the synagogs were destroyed there.
When the State of Israel was created, the population of Méa Shéarim and its particular objectives were taken into account. The right paramount of any religious Jew to wish to return to Israel, without to wish to mix with the modern and civil society, was respected, the Droit of the return applied to orthodoxe as to the laic ones. The military service was never imposed to them, the religious reasons being accepted by the Israeli Armée not to force anybody to carry a weapon, and the service says “national” of alternative assistance was not either imposed to them if their lifestyle forced to them to study in a Yeshiva.
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