Known as Al-Quds (“The Holy”) in Arabic and Yerushalayim or Zion in Hebrew. A city located in the center of both Israel and the West Bank portion of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In 2009, it was home to approximately 769,400 people from all three monotheistic religions, as well as sacred sites from these faiths within close proximity, including the Western Wall, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The Green Line, or the 1949 cease-fire line between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, demarcates the unofficial boundary between Israel and the West Bank, and divides Jerusalem. Israel immediately declared Jerusalem as its capital in 1948, and enshrined this declaration in its Basic Laws in 1980. Palestinians aspire to declare East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestine. Following the War of 1967, Israel extended its sovereignty to the eastern half of the city, including the Old City and the holy shrines, which had been controlled by Jordan since 1948. Israel “unified” East and West Jerusalem in its 1980 “Jerusalem Law,” leaving borders undefined. Most countries do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the entire city, an opinion codified in United Nations Security Council Resolution 478. Rather, they regard Jerusalem’s status as undetermined, pending final status negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Palestinian residents living in East Jerusalem are neither Israeli citizens nor residents of the West Bank. They are free to travel in the West Bank and Israel, but face certain restrictions from the State of Israel (see Jerusalem ID). See “Jerusalem” Kumaraswamy, P.R. Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, 2006. To read the text of the 1980 Basic Law regarding Jerusalem, see “Basic Law-Jerusalem-Capital of Israel.” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 15 July 2011. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1980_1989/Basic%20Law-%20Jerusalem-%20Capital%20of%20Israel.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/jerusalem