Jerusalem International Airport נְמַל הַתְּעוּפָה יְרוּשָׁלַיִם مطار القدس الدولي | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Defunct (formerly military and public) | ||||||||||
| Operator | Israel Defense Forces Israel Airports Authority | ||||||||||
| Location | Jerusalem | ||||||||||
| Opened | May 1924[1] | ||||||||||
| Closed | 8 October 2000 [2] | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,485 ft / 757 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 31°51′53″N 35°13′09″E / 31.86472°N 35.21917°E | ||||||||||
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Jerusalem International Airport[a] (IATA: JRS, ICAO: LLJR, OJJR) was a regional airport located in the city of Jerusalem. When it was opened in 1925, it was the first airport in the British Mandate for Palestine.[3]
Under the British Mandate, the former Cyprus Airways flew to the airport, and this continued intermittently after Cyprus gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1960.[4] Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the airport was occupied by Jordan alongside the rest of the West Bank, and in 1950, it became part of the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank. Between 1948 and 1967, Royal Jordanian Airlines, as well as Middle East Airlines from Lebanon, operated daily commercial flights to and from the airport.[5][6]
In 1967, Israel won the Six-Day War and began militarily occupying all previously Jordanian-annexed territory, including the airport. In 1981, Israel effectively annexed the airport as part of the Jerusalem Law. Between 1967 and 2000, Arkia and El Al operated daily commercial flights to and from the airport;[7][8] Israel closed the airport to all civilian traffic following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000.[9]
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- ^ Eldad Brin, 'Gateway to theWorld: The Golden Age of Jerusalem Airport, 1948–67' in The Jerusalem Quarterly no. 85, Spring 2021, p.74
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