Ammunition Hill Memorial
Ammunition Hill was a fortified Jordanian military post in the northern part of Jordanian-ruled East Jerusalem and the western slope of Mount Scopus. It was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Six-Day War.Places of Interest Nearby
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. Police National Headquarters is situated 470 metres east of Ammunition Hill Memorial.
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. St. John is situated 460 metres southeast of Ammunition Hill Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sheikh Jarrah and Kiryat Menachem Begin.
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.
Kiryat Menachem Begin
Neighborhood
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.
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.
Ammunition Hill Memorial
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Categories: tourism, historic site, and monument
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.79816° or 31° 47′ 53″ northLongitude
35.22784° or 35° 13′ 40″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ6XH+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 695075889OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
“Ammunition Hill Memorial” goes by many names.
- Hebrew: “גבעת התחמושת”
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