Givat HaMivtar
Givat HaMivtar is an Israeli settlement and a neighborhood in East Jerusalem established in 1970 between Ramat Eshkol and French Hill. It is located on a hill where an important battle took place in the Six Day War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: Jewish neighborhood in northern Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Giv‘at HaMivtar”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Abba Cave and Ammunition Hill.
Ammunition Hill
Battlefield
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ammunition Hill was a fortified Jordanian military post in the northern part of Jordanian-ruled East Jerusalem and the western slope of Mount Scopus. It was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Six-Day War.
Mount Scopus
Peak
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claim it is their capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include French Hill and Kiryat Menachem Begin.
French Hill
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
French Hill, also Giv'at Shapira is an Israeli settlement in northern East Jerusalem. It is located on territory that has been occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967 and later unilaterally annexed by Israel under the Jerusalem Law, in a move internationally condemned as illegal, "null and void" under international law, in 1980.
Kiryat Menachem Begin
Neighborhood
Kiryat Menachem Begin, named after former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and also known as Kiryat HaMemshala, is a complex of government buildings in East Jerusalem located between Sheikh Jarrah in the north, adjacent to Mount Scopus in the east and Ammunition Hill in the west.
Ramat Eshkol
Suburb
Ramat Eshkol is an Israeli settlement and neighborhood in northern East Jerusalem. It was built on land captured from Jordan in the Six-Day War and occupied by Israel since 1967, and was the first settlement built in East Jerusalem beyond the Green Line by Israel.
Givat HaMivtar
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.80393° or 31° 48′ 14″ northLongitude
35.23105° or 35° 13′ 52″ eastElevation
743 metres (2,438 feet)Open location code
8G3QR63J+HCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2849685176OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Yiddish—“Givat HaMivtar” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Giv’at ha-Mivtar”
- Czech: “Giv’at HaMivtar”
- Czech: “Givat ha-Mivtar”
- Dutch: “Givat HaMivtar”
- French: “Givat HaMivtar”
- Hebrew: “גבעת המבתר”
- Indonesian: “Givat HaMivtar”
- Yiddish: “גבעת המבתר”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Giv’at HaMivtar and גן מצרי טירן.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Givat HaMivtar”. Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.