 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal, and this YouTube channel covers all things related to Jerusalem and Israel. The streets of Israel's capital, Jerusalem, have some interesting names. There is the well-known Ben Yehuda Street, the main pedestrian street in Jerusalem city centre, which is named after Eliezer Ben Yehuda. That's the guy who is credited with reviving Hebrew as a spoken language. There are plenty of streets named after great rabbis and other historical Jewish figures. There are some named after non-Jewish scientists like Patterson Street next to the Orient Hotel in the German colony. But if you travel through south-west Jerusalem, through neighbourhoods like Kiryatoyovel and Irhaganim, you may have spotted a trend. There is Chile Street, located next to Park Rubinovich. Just a couple of hundred metres north from there, there is a Brazil Street running in the direction of the Allen Hospital. Not so far from either of those is Bolivia Street, and Bolivia Street happens to intersect with Guatemala Street. So what's the deal? Why are there so many neighbourhoods in one small suburban patch of Jerusalem named after various Latin American countries? Is south Jerusalem a thriving hub of Latino immigrants? Are there Brazilian barbecue places, Saltonite clubs, and... Sorry, I ran out of cultural stereotypes. Unfortunately, the answer isn't quite as exciting, but it's perhaps more significant. According to various sources, the Latin American streets in south Jerusalem are named after the Latin American states, which voted mostly in favour of the Yuan partition plan on November 29, 1945. In fact, there is even a street in Jerusalem named after the date on which the partition plan was agreed. In the Hebrew numerical system, 29, is transliterated as Kaftet. Kaftet, the November Street on which the Italian consulate to Jerusalem is located, means in Hebrew, November 29th Street. So what was the Yuan partition plan? It refers to the UN resolution 181 of 1947, which proposed separating Mandatory Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. It was accepted by Jewish negotiators, but rejected by Arab states. He used it as a springboard to launch an all-out war against Israel. That became the War of Independence. 33 countries voted in favour of the proposal, constituting 72% of the total votes. This 33 included a 13 country block of Latin American and Caribbean countries. These are the states who have streets named in their honour in south Jerusalem. Other countries who voted in favour include Belgium, Denmark, Australia, and the United States. 13 countries voted against the proposal and 10 countries abstained, including six countries from the Latin American and Caribbean block. Note that not all the Latin American states who have streets named after them actually voted in favour of the resolution. Chile, for instance, was one of the countries which abstained, and the municipality website doesn't actually mention why it got included. Perhaps because they didn't vote against the proposal? If you know the answer to this conundrum, let me know in the comments. Occasionally, looking up street names does throw up some interesting facts. If you're interested in this pursuit, then I have a few resources to recommend. The first of these is a lookup tool on the Jerusalem Municipality website. I'll leave a link in the description. Although the search tool only works in Hebrew, you can look up the name of any street in the city and find its history and who or what it's named after. In English, there's the recently published Jerusalem and Neighborhood Street Guide, which provides an English reference to the street names of Jerusalem. An updated 2023 edition of this popular title recently came to Marcus. Thanks for watching the video. Until next time.