July 10 1924 – 19 Tammuz 5684
A new Jewish village broke ground just north of Jerusalem. Overcrowding inside the Holy City had prompted the Hebrew Village Association to acquire land along the road from Jerusalem to Nablus, which it then sold by the acre, mainly to Jerusalemites. Named Neve Ya’akov for Rabbi Yitzhak Yaacov Reines, founder of the Mizrahi religious Zionist movement, and planned by Jewish-German architect Richard Kauffman (who also planned many settlements and neighborhoods at the time, like Moshav Nahalal and the Jerusalem neighborhood of Talpiyot), the neighborhood was captured by the Jordanians after fierce battles in 1948. Following the Six-Day War, it was rebuilt northeast of its original site.
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