Ramat Beit Hakerem is a Jewish neighborhood in west Jerusalem, Israel

Israel

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, established in 1991, on a tall hill

Hill

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, between Beit Hakerem to its north, the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University to its east and Bait VeGan to its south-west. The meaning of its name is Beit Hakerem’s Heights. Some authorities regard Ramat Beit Hakerem, Beit Hakerem, Givat Beit HaKerem

Givat Beit HaKerem

Givat Beit HaKerem is a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem. It is located in the west part of Jerusalem.The neighborhood is bordered by the neighborhoods Beit HaKerem, Ramat Beit HaKerem, Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bayit VeGan....

, and Yefeh Nof

Yefeh Nof

Yefeh Nof is a neighborhood in west Jerusalem, founded in 1929. Together with Ramat Beit HaKerem and Givat Beit HaKerem, it is part of the larger Beit HaKerem neighborhood...

 neighborhoods as one “ultra neighborhood” called “Beit Hakerem Rabaty” (lit: Broad Beit Hakerem).

The neighborhood is planned to include 2,050 three to five room apartment

Apartment

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s and penthouses. The apartment buildings have three to five floors and are built in Neo-Classic

Neoclassical architecture

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 style, faced with Jerusalem stone

Jerusalem stone

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. It contains a large park

Park

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, a large shopping center, and many pedestrian passages. Between 1948 to 1967 the area on which the neighborhood is built was planned to be an air field. On 1967 Israel conquered East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem

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 and built an air field there, on Atarot

Atarot

Atarot was a moshav in Mandatory Palestine, north of Jerusalem along the highway to Ramallah. The village was captured and destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...

. A factory

Factory

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 of Israel Military Industries

Israel Military Industries

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was built in 1951 on a part of the area on which the neighborhood is built. That factory was removed in 1997.