Ramat Eshkol

Ramat Eshkol is an Israeli settlement and neighborhood in northern . It was built on land captured from Jordan in the Six-Day War and occupied by Israel since 1967, and was the first settlement built in beyond the Green Line by Israel.
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  • Type: Suburb with 3,570 residents
  • Description: neighbourhood in Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Ramot Eshkol” and “רמות אשכול”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Tomb of the Grapes and Tombs of the Sanhedrin.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

, also Tombs of the Judges, is an underground complex of 63 rock-cut tombs located in a public park in the northern neighborhood of .

Battlefield
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was a fortified military post in the northern part of Jordanian-ruled East Jerusalem and the western slope of . It was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Six-Day War.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sanhedria and Sanhedria Murhevet.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in northern . It lies east of Golda Meir Street, adjacent to Ramat Eshkol, Shmuel HaNavi, Maalot Dafna and the .

Suburb
Sanhedria HaMurhevet is a Haredi neighborhood in . Its name translates as "expanded ". The neighborhood was founded in 1970 as a northern expansion of .

Suburb
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is an Israeli settlement and a neighborhood in 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.

Ramat Eshkol

Latitude
31.80179° or 31° 48′ 6″ north
Longitude
35.22288° or 35° 13′ 22″ east
Population
3,570
Open location code
8G3QR62F+P5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278469824
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q2778124
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Ramat Eshkol” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رامات إشكول”
  • Czech: “Ramat Eškol”
  • Dutch: “Ramat Eshkol”
  • French: “Ramat Eshkol”
  • German: “Ramat Eshkol”
  • Hebrew: “רמת אשכול”
  • Indonesian: “Ramat Eshkol”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ramat Eshkol”
  • Norwegian: “Ramat Eshkol”
  • Persian: “رامات اشکول”
  • Turkish: “Ramat Eşkol”
  • Yiddish: “רמת אשכול”

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Places to explore: Ma’alot Dafna and Tel Arza.

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Highlights: Ahavat Israel Synagoge and גן האשכולות.

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