The climb up Silwan's hillside stairways is a tricky obstacle course.

ECONOMIST: Jerusalem

Parts of Silwan, on the eastern slopes below the Old City, are already precariously propped up on iron stilts, to facilitate the excavation of King David's biblical city, which is said to lie beneath.

ECONOMIST: Jerusalem

The abject abandonment of Judaism's holiest site by successive governments has facilitated not only the radicalization of Jerusalem Arabs from surrounding neighborhoods, like Silwan, it has also emboldened global jihadists to believe that Jerusalem - and Israel with it - will soon fall into their hands.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: All roads lead to Jerusalem