Writing in 2000, Graham Usher estimated that the Armenian Quarter had a population of 1,200 [REF].
Armenians began emigrating from Jerusalem's Old City in the mid-20th century,[REF] being in the middle of the conflict between Arabs and Jews,[REF][REF] mainly since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and what Daphne Tsimhoni characterized as "their feeling of loneliness."