Givat Shaul
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 8,970 residents
- Description: neighborhood of West Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Giv`at Sha’ul”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Library of Israel and Binyanei HaUma.
National Library of Israel
Library
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The National Library of Israel, formerly Jewish National and University Library, is the library dedicated to collecting the cultural treasures of Israel and of Jewish heritage.
Binyanei HaUma
Theater building
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The International Convention Center, commonly known as Binyanei HaUma, is a concert hall and convention center in Giv'at Ram in Jerusalem, Israel.
Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav
Synagogue
Mercaz HaRav is a national-religious yeshiva in Jerusalem, founded in 1924 by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. Located in the city's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood, it has become the most prominent religious-Zionist yeshiva in the world and synonymous with Rabbi Kook's teachings.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kiryat Moshe and Kiryat Mattersdorf.
Kiryat Moshe
Suburb
Kiryat Moshe is a neighborhood in Jerusalem, named for the British Jewish philanthropist Moses Montefiore. Kiryat Moshe is bordered by Givat Shaul and Beit Hakerem.
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.
Givat Shaul
- Categories: neighborhood of Jerusalem and locality
- Location: Jerusalem District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.79112° or 31° 47′ 28″ northLongitude
35.1931° or 35° 11′ 35″ eastPopulation
8,970Elevation
823 metres (2,700 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ5RV+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 278470644OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
294983Wikidata ID
Q2778178
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Givat Shaul” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غفعات شاؤول”
- Catalan: “Givat Shaul”
- Chinese: “扫罗山”
- Czech: “Giv’at Ša’ul”
- Czech: “Giv’at Šaul”
- Czech: “Giv’at Sha’ul”
- Czech: “Givat Šaul”
- French: “Givat Shaul”
- Hebrew: “Giv‘at Sha’ul”
- Hebrew: “גבעת שאול”
- Hebrew: “שכונת גבעת שאול”
- Indonesian: “Givat Shaul”
- Japanese: “ギバ・シャウル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Givat Shaul”
- Norwegian: “Givat Shaul”
- Slovenian: “Givat Šaul”
- Turkish: “Givat Şaul”
- Urdu: “غفعات شاؤول”
- Yiddish: “גבעת שאול”
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Explore places such as Kiryat Unsdorf and Beit HaKerem.
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