Beit Yisroel
Beit Yisrael is a predominantly Haredi neighborhood in central Jerusalem. It is located just north of Mea Shearim. The name Beit Yisrael is taken from the verse in Ezekiel 36:10, in which Ezekiel prophesies to the hills and mountains of Israel, "I shall make…- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel
- Also known as: “Beit Israel” and “Beit Yisrael”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mir Yeshiva and Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Mir Yeshiva
Synagogue
The Mir Yeshiva, known also as The Mir, is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem. With over 9,000 single and married students, it is the largest yeshiva in the world.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically-attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and contains the earliest inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meah Shearim and Batei Ungarin.
Meah Shearim
Suburb
Photo: Yoninah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mea Shearim is a neighborhood in Jerusalem. It is one of the oldest Ashkenazi neighborhoods in Jerusalem outside of the Old City. It is populated by Ashkenazi Haredi Jews, and was built by members of the Old Yishuv.
Batei Ungarin
Neighborhood
Photo: Sir kiss, Public domain.
Batei Ungarin is a Haredi Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, north-east of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built by Kolel Ungarin, a Hungarian Jewish charity supporting Jews living in the Land of Israel.
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.
Beit Yisroel
- Categories: neighborhood of Jerusalem and locality
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.7893° or 31° 47′ 22″ northLongitude
35.22272° or 35° 13′ 22″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ6QF+P3OpenStreetMap ID
node 2081525605OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q2916609
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Beit Yisroel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيت اسرائيل”
- Chinese: “以色列之家”
- Czech: “Beit Yisra’el”
- Czech: “Bejt Jisra’el”
- Czech: “Bejt Jisrael”
- French: “Beit Yisrael”
- Hebrew: “בית ישראל”
- Hebrew: “שכונת בית ישראל”
- Indonesian: “Beit Yisrael”
- Polish: “Beit Izrael”
- Polish: “Bet Jisra’el”
- Turkish: “Beyt Yisrael”
- Yiddish: “בית ישראל”
- Yiddish: “שכונת בית ישראל”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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