Mahane Israel (Hebrew: מחנה ישראל, Mahaneh Yisra'el) is the secondJewish neighborhood built outside the walls of theOld City ofJerusalem afterMishkenot Shaananim.^[1]

Mahane Israel was the first neighborhood built by residents of the Old City on their own behalf, as part of theexpansion of Jerusalem in the 19th century (Hebrew: היציאה מן החומות). Mahane Israel was built by and forJews from Maghreb. It was established by the Moroccan-born Jewish leader,Rav David Ben-Shimon in 1867.^[2] Although the neighborhood was described as very small, it wasn't significantly smaller than other neighborhoods built at the same period. Men studied in different shifts throughout the night in the centralshul, Tzuf Devash, for spiritual reasons and also to fend off possible nighttime attacks.Maghrebian Jews at the end of the 19th century numbered more than 2,000 persons, comprising 25% of the entireSephardic community in Jerusalem.

• Expansion of Jerusalem in the 19th century
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• Neighbourhoods of Jerusalem
• 1868 establishments in Ottoman Syria
• Populated places established in 1868

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