Lifta

Lifta was a Palestinian village on the outskirts of . The village's Palestinian Arab inhabitants were expelled by Zionist paramilitary forces during the 1948 Palestine war.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: depopulated Palestinian village village on the outskirts of Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Liftah”, “Me Neftoah”, “Mei Neftoaḥ”, “Neftoah”, and “Nephtoah”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Binyanei HaUma.

Convention center
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The International Convention Center, commonly known as , is a concert hall and convention center in Giv'at Ram in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Givat Shaul and Kiryat Mattersdorf.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in . The neighborhood is located at the western entrance to the city, east of the neighborhood of and north of . stands 820 meters above sea level.

Neighborhood
is a Haredi neighborhood in . It is located on the northern edge of the mountain plateau on which central Jerusalem lies. It is named after , a town in with a long Jewish history.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in northwest , just off the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway at the main entrance to the city. It occupies the highest hill in Jerusalem.

Lifta

Latitude
31.79696° or 31° 47′ 49″ north
Longitude
35.19239° or 35° 11′ 33″ east
Elevation
660 metres (2,165 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ5WR+QX
Geo­Names ID
294271
Wiki­data ID
Q2599091
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Satellite Map

Discover Lifta from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Lifta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لفتا”
  • Catalan: “Lifta”
  • Czech: “Lifta”
  • Czech: “Mej Naftoach”
  • Dutch: “Lifta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لفتا”
  • Finnish: “Lifta”
  • French: “Lifta”
  • German: “Lifta”
  • Hebrew: “Mé Neftoaẖ”
  • Hebrew: “ליפתא”
  • Hebrew: “ליפתה”
  • Hebrew: “לפתא”
  • Hebrew: “מי נפתוח”
  • Indonesian: “Lifta”
  • Irish: “Lifta”
  • Japanese: “リフタ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lifta”
  • Norwegian: “Lifta”
  • Persian: “لیفتا”
  • Polish: “Lifta”
  • Romanian: “Lifta”
  • Russian: “Лифта”
  • Spanish: “Lifta”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліфта”
  • Urdu: “لفتا”

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