| Summary: | Despite the high symbolic and political values granted to Jerusalem, the city’s net migration balance has been negative for several decades, within the Israeli as well as within the Palestinian population. Similarly, despite the fact that Jerusalem is designated as capital city by the Hebrew State, and claimed as capital by the Palestinian Authority, the migration’s movements affecting Jerusalem are not exclusively political, even if political grounds may explain part of the flow. Indeed, “classical” economic factors, such as the cost of housing, unemployment and job search, might play a significant role in the dynamics of demographic attraction and repulsion to and from Jerusalem. In addition, two metropolitan areas have gradually developed around Jerusalem, one concerning the Israeli population, the second concerning the Palestinian population. Within these metropolitan areas, suburbs are attracting more and more inhabitants, expressing an urban spread process that nowadays affect most of the metropolitan cities in the world.
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