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Montefiore Quarter – Mishkenot Sha'ananim 1948. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, when the Old City was captured by the Arab Legion, Mishkenot Sha'ananim bordered on no man's land in proximity to the armistice line with the Kingdom of Jordan, and many residents of the Yemin Moshe quarter left in the wake of sniper attacks by Jordanian Arab Legionnaires. [8]
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The community runs a guesthouse (Yad Hashmona Country Hotel), convention center and banquet hall. In 2000, a biblical village was inaugurated with the assistance of the Swiss Beth Shalom society and the Israel Antiquities Authority. [5] A Biblical garden planted on the hillside replicates agriculture in ancient times.
The area is undergoing gentrification, and many homes have been purchased by affluent Orthodox Jewish families from abroad, [4] especially from English-speaking and French-speaking countries. The neighborhood has several yeshivas , among them Maalos Hatorah, Midrash Shmuel and Noam HaTalmud, along with a large number of synagogues .
Meleke in the Western Wall, Jerusalem.. Meleke (Arabic: ملكي, "royal", "kingly"; Hebrew: אבן ירושלמית), also transliterated melekeh or malaki, is a lithologic type of white, coarsely-crystalline, thickly bedded-limestone found in the Judaean Mountains in Israel.
“The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,” Yes Studios’ award-winning historical series, has been picked up by Netflix for multiple territories, including the U.S., U.K., France and Spain. The multi ...
The Jerusalem branch of the Magen David Adom ambulance service is located in Romema. [ 9 ] Other landmarks include the Israel Television building, Jerusalem Gate Hotel , Center One shopping mall , Belz Great Synagogue and Rabbinical College with a design resembling that of the Second Temple, and the Aleh Center for the rehabilitation of ...
Israel's military campaign in southern Lebanon has caused vast destruction in more than a dozen border towns and villages, reducing many of them to clusters of grey craters, according to satellite ...