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The ultra-Orthodox make up one-third of the population of the territories. But most of them are living there for one reason only, which has nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with the severe shortage of affordable housing within the Green Line

Tamar Rotem
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Some Tzur Hadassah residents still remember the frequent ambulance sirens that 13 years ago began to be heard every Sabbath from the direction of their new neighbors in Betar Illit and which disrupted the region's tranquillity. The sirens marked the ongoing population boom of the first ultra-Orthodox Jewish city beyond the Green Line, which registers 1,700 births annually.

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