Mishkenot Shaananim was the first Jewish neighborhood built outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem on a hill directly across from Mount Zion in 1860 during the Ottoman era. Built by British Jewish banker and philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore and paid for by the estate of an American Jewish businessman from New Orleans, Judah Touro. Since it was outside the walls and open to Bedouin raids, pillage and general banditry rampant in the region at the time, the Jews were reluctant to move in, even though the housing was luxurious compared to the derelict and overcrowded houses in the Old City. As an incentive, people were even paid to live there, and a stone wall was built around the compound with a heavy door that was locked at night. Yamin Moshe was an extension to Mishkenot Shaananim established in 1892 -1894 by the Montefiore Welfare Fund meant to mark the seventh year after the philanthropist's death. The compound had a water cistern with an iron pump imported from England, a mikveh, a communal oven and a windmill, which was built to allow poor Jews to grind their own flour.
Teddy Park, also known as Teddy Kollek Park, is a public park situated opposite Jerusalem's Old City Jaffa Gate and David's Citadel and integrated with the Artists' Quarter. The park was developed by the Jerusalem Foundation in memory of Jerusalem's long serving mayor, Teddy Kollek, and opened to the public in 2013.
