Middle East
Israel
Jerusalem District

Lifta

Lifta was a Palestinian village on the outskirts of . The village's Palestinian Arab inhabitants were expelled by Zionist paramilitary forces during the 1948 Palestine war.
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Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Binyanei HaUma and Jerusalem Central Bus Station.

Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The International Convention Center, commonly known as , is a concert hall and convention center in Giv'at Ram in . is situated 1¼ km southeast of Lifta.

Bus station
Photo: IgKh, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is the main bus depot in . Located on Jaffa Road near the entrance to the city, it serves Egged, Superbus and Dan intercity bus routes. is situated 1 km southeast of Lifta.

Synagogue
Mercaz HaRav is a national-religious yeshiva in , founded in 1924 by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. Located in the city's neighborhood, it has become the most prominent religious-Zionist yeshiva in the world and synonymous with Rabbi Kook's teachings. is situated 1 km south of Lifta.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kiryat Mattersdorf and Givat Shaul.

Neighborhood
is a Haredi neighborhood in . It is located on the northern edge of the mountain plateau on which central Jerusalem lies. It is named after , a town in with a long Jewish history.

Suburb
Photo: Yoninah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood in . The neighborhood is located at the western entrance to the city, east of the neighborhood of and north of . stands 820 meters above sea level.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in northwest , just off the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway at the main entrance to the city. It occupies the highest hill in Jerusalem.

Lifta

Latitude
31.79646° or 31° 47′ 47″ north
Longitude
35.19631° or 35° 11′ 47″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ5WW+HG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8244013111
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q2599091
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Lifta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لفتا”
  • Arabic: “لفتا‎”
  • Catalan: “Lifta”
  • Czech: “Lifta”
  • Czech: “Mej Naftoach”
  • Dutch: “Lifta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لفتا”
  • Finnish: “Lifta”
  • French: “Lifta”
  • German: “Lifta”
  • Hebrew: “ליפתא”
  • Hebrew: “ליפתא‎”
  • Hebrew: “ליפתה”
  • Hebrew: “מי נפתוח”
  • Indonesian: “Lifta”
  • Irish: “Lifta”
  • Japanese: “リフタ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lifta”
  • Norwegian: “Lifta”
  • Persian: “لیفتا”
  • Polish: “Lifta”
  • Romanian: “Lifta”
  • Russian: “Лифта”
  • Spanish: “Lifta”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліфта”
  • Urdu: “لفتا”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Nefto’ach (Lifta) Spring and Yeshivat Beit Shmuel.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lifta”. Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.