Kiryat Menachem Begin
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: neighborhood of Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Kiryat HaMemshala”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Police National Headquarters and St. John.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sheikh Jarrah and Givat HaMivtar.
Sheikh Jarrah
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Givat HaMivtar
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Givat HaMivtar is an Israeli settlement and a neighborhood in East Jerusalem established in 1970 between Ramat Eshkol and French Hill. It is located on a hill where an important battle took place in the Six Day War.
French Hill
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
French Hill, also Giv'at Shapira is an Israeli settlement in northern East Jerusalem. It is located on territory that has been occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967 and later unilaterally annexed by Israel under the Jerusalem Law, in a move internationally condemned as illegal, "null and void" under international law, in 1980.
Kiryat Menachem Begin
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.79771° or 31° 47′ 52″ northLongitude
35.23332° or 35° 14′ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ6XM+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 2284173150OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q2916145
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Kiryat Menachem Begin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كريات مناحيم بيغن”
- Czech: “Kirjat Menachem Begin”
- Czech: “Kiryat Menachem Begin”
- Czech: “Kiryat Menahem Begin”
- Dutch: “Kiryat Menachem Begin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كريات مناحيم بيجن”
- French: “Kiryat Menachem Begin”
- Hebrew: “קריית הממשלה”
- Hebrew: “קרית הממשלה”
- Hebrew: “קרית מנחם בגין”
- Indonesian: “Kiryat Menachem Begin”
- Ladino: “Kiryat Menachem Begin”
- Turkish: “Kiryat Menahem Begin”
- Yiddish: “קריית הממשלה”
- Yiddish: “קרית הממשלה”
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