evidence: This interactive map shows how the city was divided in 1949. In March 1949, the armistice agreement between Israel and the Arab states surrounding historic Palestine was signed. These lines were drawn by negotiators in green ink on a map and were therefore referred to as the Green Line. This line represents both the armistice or ceasefire boundaries at the end of the 1948 War and the unofficial demarcation of the State of Israel’s boundaries at the time. This arrangement and this line divided Jerusalem, creating the unofficial boundaries of a Jewish part of the city under Israeli sovereignty and a Palestinian part of the city under Jordanian sovereignty (after Jordan annexed it).1