provides them with the requisite teaching and facilitation skills. Economy Some residents of the neighborhood work at Hadassah Medical Center, located on a hill overlooking the neighborhood. Sports In 2005, the Peres Center for Peace inaugurated a synthetic turf soccer field in Issawiya as part of the Twinned Peace Soccer School project. The soccer field was a priority in 1993 during Teddy Kollek's election year and had been allocated funding at the time, but was finally built with South Korean funding. 2019 and 2020 clashes As of May 2020, for over a year, Special Patrol Unit and Border Police forces regularly enter the neighborhood; "It is evident that the police are not responding to disturbances in the neighborhood, on the contrary. The incursions spark the disturbance and there is compelling evidence that this is precisely the purpose of the nightly raids…" according to FMEP. Given the purpose, intensity and modality of these operations, they may amount to collective punishment according to human rights organizations. See also Samer Tariq Issawi References Bibliography External links Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons 'Isawiya Town (Fact Sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) 'Isawiya Town Profile, ARIJ 'Isawiya aerial photo, ARIJ Locality Development Priorities and Needs in 'Isawiya, ARIJ The new Jerusalem Master Plan grabs 250 dunums of 'Issawiya village lands 01, December, 2004, ARIJ Israel expands an Army Military Base East of Al 'Isawiya village 05, July, 2007, POICA Transferring 660 Dunums into a "Jewish National Park" in Al 'Isawiya town 04, March, 2010, POICA More "Biblical Parks"… the confiscation of Al 'Isawiya and At Tur lands 07, December, 2011, POICA Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem