Botanical Garden
The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden and a center of botanical education and research in Jerusalem, Israel. The largest botanical garden in Israel, it features over 6,000 plant species from around the world, arranged in phytogeographic sections, including Australia, South Africa, Europe, North America, Southwest and Central Asia and the Mediterranean.Photo: Adiel lo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: Botanical garden in the Giv’at Ram Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Jerusalem Botanical Gardens”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Israel Museum and Hebrew language academy.
Israel Museum
Museum
Photo: אסף.צ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Israel Museum is an art and archaeology museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and an encyclopedic museum. Israel Museum is situated 410 metres northeast of Botanical Garden.
Hebrew language academy
College
Photo: דניאל צבי, Public domain.
The Academy of the Hebrew Language was established by the Israeli government in 1953 as the "supreme institution for scholarship on the Hebrew language in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem of Givat Ram campus." Its stated aims are to assemble and research… Hebrew language academy is situated 280 metres northwest of Botanical Garden.
Bible Lands Museum
Museum
Photo: Adiel lo, Public domain.
The Bible Lands Museum is an archaeological museum in Jerusalem, that explores the culture of the peoples mentioned in the Bible including ancient Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, Arameans, Hittites, Elamites, Phoenicians, Persians and Jews. Bible Lands Museum is situated 590 metres northeast of Botanical Garden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nayot and Givat Mordechai.
Nayot
Suburb
Nayot is a neighborhood in south-central Jerusalem established in 1960 by a group of English-speaking immigrants. The neighborhood's population of 2,223 includes a mix of families, young children, and older adults.
Givat Mordechai
Suburb
Givat Mordechai is a Jewish neighborhood in southwest-central Jerusalem, midway between the neighborhoods of Nayot and Malcha. The neighborhood was named after an American philanthropist, Maxwell Abbell of Chicago.
Givat Ram
Suburb
Photo: Neukoln, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Givat Ram is a neighborhood in central Jerusalem. It is the site of Kiryat HaMemshala, which includes many of Israel's most important national institutions, among them the Knesset, the Israel Museum, the Supreme Court, Bank of Israel, Academy of the Hebrew Language, National Library, one of the campuses of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and many government ministries' offices.
Botanical Garden
- Categories: botanical garden and recreation area
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.77005° or 31° 46′ 12″ northLongitude
35.19983° or 35° 11′ 59″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ5CX+2WOpenStreetMap ID
way 44139577OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata ID
Q503498
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Botanical Garden” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحديقة النباتية الجامعية في القدس”
- Armenian: “Երուսաղեմի բուսաբանական այգիներ”
- Esperanto: “Jerusalema Botanika Ĝardeno”
- French: “Jardin botanique de Jérusalem”
- German: “Botanischer Garten Jerusalem”
- German: “Botanischer Garten”
- German: “Jerusalem Botanical Gardens”
- German: “Jerusalemer Botanischer Garten”
- Hebrew: “הגן הבוטני בגבעת רם”
- Hebrew: “הגן הבוטני בירושלים”
- Hebrew: “הגן הבוטני האוניברסיטאי בגבעת רם”
- Hebrew: “הגן הבוטני האוניברסיטאי בירושלים”
- Hebrew: “הגן הבוטני”
- Russian: “Тропический сад”
- Spanish: “Jardin Botanico de Jerusalem”
- Spanish: “Jardin Botánico de Jerusalem”
- Spanish: “Jardín Botanico de Jerusalem”
- Spanish: “Jardín Botánico de Jerusalem”
- Spanish: “Jardin Botanico de Jerusalen”
- Spanish: “Jardin Botanico de Jerusalén”
- Spanish: “Jardin Botánico de Jerusalen”
- Spanish: “Jardin Botánico de Jerusalén”
- Spanish: “Jardín Botanico de Jerusalen”
- Spanish: “Jardín Botanico de Jerusalén”
- Spanish: “Jardín Botánico de Jerusalen”
- Spanish: “Jardín Botánico de Jerusalén”
- Ukrainian: “Єрусалимський ботанічний сад”
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