Editing Neturei Karta (section)

==Members==
[[File:Members of Neturei Karta Orthodox Jewish group protest against Israel.jpg|thumb|Members of Neturei Karta at a [[Palestinian nationalism|pro-Palestinian rally]] in the United Kingdom, 2005]]
[[File:Al-Quds 2014 Berlin 20140725 173841.jpg|thumb|Members of Neturei Karta at the [[Quds Day]] protests in Berlin 2014]]

Generally, members of Neturei Karta are descendants of [[Hungary|Hungarian]] Jews and [[Lithuanian Jews]] who were students of the [[Vilna Gaon|Gaon of Vilna]] (known as ''[[Perushim]]'') who had settled in Jerusalem in the early nineteenth century. In the late nineteenth century, their ancestors participated in the creation of new neighborhoods outside the city walls to alleviate overcrowding in the Old City, and most are now concentrated in the neighborhood of [[Batei Ungarin]] and the larger [[Meah Shearim]] neighborhood. Members of the [[Malachim (Hasidic group)|Malachim]] are also prominently represented within Neturei Karta.

Neturei Karta is notoriously vague about its size, and there are no official population statistics available, in 1971, it was reported to consist of several hundred families in Israel and throughout the diaspora.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lamm |first=Norman |date=1971 |title=THE IDEOLOGY OF THE NETUREI KARTA: According to the Satmarer Version |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23257379 |journal=Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=38–53 |jstor=23257379 |issn=0041-0608}}</ref> As recently as 2007, the group was reported to have a few thousand members.<ref>{{cite news | last = Santos | first = Fernanda  | title = New York Rabbi Finds Friends in Iran and Enemies at Home  | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/nyregion/15rabbi.html  | newspaper = The New York Times  | date = 2007-01-15  | access-date = 2024-04-16}}</ref> ''[[Haaretz]]'' estimated in 2024 that the group had a membership in the low thousands, predominantly in Israel, but also in diaspora locations with large populations of ultra-Orthodox Jews.<ref name="Haaretzexplainer" />