Lifta
Lifta was a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The village's Palestinian Arab inhabitants were expelled by Zionist paramilitary forces during the 1948 Palestine war.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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 and Boundary marker.
Binyanei HaUma
Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The International Convention Center, commonly known as Binyanei HaUma, is a concert hall and convention center in Giv'at Ram in Jerusalem.
Boundary marker
Ruins
Photo: DerNurNochAlsBilderlieferantMitmacht, CC0.
A boundary marker, border marker, boundary stone, or border stone is a robust physical marker that identifies the start of a land boundary or the change in a boundary, especially a change in direction of a boundary.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Givat Shaul and Kiryat Mattersdorf.
Givat Shaul
Suburb
Photo: Yoninah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Givat Shaul is a neighborhood in West Jerusalem. The neighborhood is located at the western entrance to the city, east of the neighborhood of Har Nof and north of Kiryat Moshe. Givat Shaul stands 820 meters above sea level.
Kiryat Mattersdorf
Neighborhood
Kiryat Mattersdorf is a Haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem. It is located on the northern edge of the mountain plateau on which central Jerusalem lies. It is named after Mattersburg, a town in Austria with a long Jewish history.
Romema
Suburb
Romema is a neighbourhood in northwest Jerusalem, just off the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway at the main entrance to the city. It occupies the highest hill in Jerusalem.
Lifta
- Categories: human settlement, depopulated Palestinian village, village, and former settlement
- Location: Jerusalem District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Lifta from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shemurat Lifta and Miẕpé Neftoaẖ.
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