A Palestinian carries water tanks to his house in Shuafat, East Jerusalem, April 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
the government eventually decided to maintain a 70-to-30 ratio of Jews to Arabs in Greater Jerusalem. Throughout the tenure of Teddy Kollek, who served as Jerusalem’s mayor from 1965 to 1993, the government adopted a policy of neglect toward East Jerusalem to meet those recommendations—an approach acknowledged by Kollek himself