Beit Iksa

Jewish families lived north of Jerusalem in Atrot and Neve Yaakov, and south of the city in the four communities of Gush Etzion.

Jewish-owned parcels were scattered through East Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, Silwan, Beit Jala, Beit Iksa, Beit Safafa, and other places that ended up under Jordanian control.

Some of the property belonged to individual families.

Other parcels belonged to banks, religious trusts, the Jewish National Fund, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Jewish organizations.

The owners included private individuals, the Jewish National Fund, the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, the Anglo-Palestine Bank, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Jewish religious trusts.

The Jewish cemeteries in Hebron and Nablus appeared among the properties as well.

Individual Jews held land in East Jerusalem, Silwan, Beit Jala, Beit Iksa, Beit Safafa, Hebron, and elsewhere.

Some of those properties had been purchased under the Ottoman Empire, and others during the British Mandate.