Sheikh Jarrah
Sheikh Jarrah is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, two kilometres north of the Old City, on the road to Mount Scopus. It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, a physician of Saladin, located within its vicinity.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Palestine
- Also known as: “Esh Sheikh Jarrah”, “Esh Sheikh Jarrāḥ”, “Shaykh Jarrah”, and “Sheikh Jarah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. John and Saint Joseph.
St. John
Hospital
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group is a charitable foundation which operates an ophthalmic hospital in Jerusalem – one of six hospitals in the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network – and satellite eye care clinics and hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Saint Joseph
Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital is a Catholic general hospital in East Jerusalem, established in 1956 at the initiative of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, as a replacement for their St.
Police National Headquarters
Police station
The National Headquarters of the Israel Police is the headquarters of the Israel Police, located in Kiryat Menachem Begin in East Jerusalem.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kiryat Menachem Begin and Ma’alot Dafna.
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.
Ma’alot Dafna
Suburb
Ma'alot Dafna is an Israeli settlement and a neighborhood in East Jerusalem. It borders the neighborhood of Shmuel HaNavi to the west, Ammunition Hill to the east, Ramat Eshkol to the north and Arzei HaBira to the south.
Wadi al-Joz
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wadi al-Joz, also Wadi Joz, is a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, located at the head of the Kidron Valley, north of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Sheikh Jarrah
- Categories: neighborhood of Jerusalem and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.79477° or 31° 47′ 41″ northLongitude
35.23091° or 35° 13′ 51″ eastElevation
796 metres (2,612 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ6VJ+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2031059160OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Sheikh Jarrah” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Shejh Xharah”
- Arabic: “الشيخ جراح”
- Bengali: “শেখ জাররাহ”
- Catalan: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- Catalan: “Xeik Jarrah”
- Chinese: “謝赫賈拉”
- Chinese: “谢赫·贾拉”
- Chinese: “谢赫贾拉”
- Czech: “Šejch Džara”
- Czech: “Šejch Džarach”
- Dutch: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الشيخ جراح”
- Esperanto: “Ŝejko Ĵarrah”
- Finnish: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- French: “Cheikh Jarrah”
- French: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- German: “Scheich Dscharrah”
- German: “Scheich Scharra”
- German: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- Hebrew: “שיח‘ ג’ראח”
- Hebrew: “שייח ג’ראח”
- Hebrew: “שייח‘ ג’ארח”
- Hebrew: “שייח‘ ג’ראח”
- Hebrew: “שייח’ ג’ראח”
- Indonesian: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- Italian: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- Japanese: “シェーフ・ジャラーフ”
- Japanese: “シェイク・ジャッラーハ”
- Japanese: “シェイク・ジャラー”
- Japanese: “シェイフヤラ”
- Malay: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- Norwegian: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- Persian: “شیخ جراح”
- Polish: “Asz-Szajch Dżarrah”
- Polish: “Szajch Dżarrah”
- Polish: “Szeik Jarrah”
- Portuguese: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- Russian: “Шейх-Джаррах”
- Spanish: “Sheij Jarrah”
- Spanish: “Sheij Yarrah”
- Spanish: “Sheikh Jarrah”
- Thai: “อัชชัยค์ญัรรอห์”
- Turkish: “Şeikh Jarrah”
- Ukrainian: “Еш-Шейх-Джаррах”
- Ukrainian: “Шейх-Джаррах”
- Urdu: “شیخ جراح”
- Western Panjabi: “شیخ جراح”
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