Ramat Denya
Ramat Denya (Hebrew: רמת דניה) (lit. "Denya Heights") is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem. It was established in 1970 between Kiryat Hayovel and Bayit Vegan, 780 meters above sea level. Denya was the name of the development company that built the first apartment buildings.[1]
Streets
The streets in Ramat Denya are named for: Abel Pann (1887–1963), an artist and teacher at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design; Aryeh (Louis) Kobovy (1896–1966) a Labor Zionist leader in Belgium and Israeli consul to Poland and Czechoslovakia; Zeitlin in memory of two brothers, Hillel (1872–1943), a philosopher and researcher of Hasidism who was killed by the Nazis, and Aharon (1898–1973), a writer and poet; Edward Gelber (1904–1971), a Canadian Zionist leader who emigrated to Israel in 1954 and his wife Hanna a notable physician and a WIZO leader in Israel; Yosef Haim Shrim (1851–1949), rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community; Zvi Leibowitz (1897–1980), a Jerusalem municipal planner who oversaw the transport of supplies to Jerusalem during the siege of 1948.[2]
Notable residents
- Shlomo Hillel
- Yotam Ottolenghi - chef and TV presenter
References
- v
- t
- e
- Armenian Quarter
- Christian Quarter
- Muristan
- Jewish Quarter
- Muslim Quarter
- Bab al-Huta
- Arzei HaBira
- Batei Ungarin
- Beit David
- Beit Ya'akov
- Beit Yisrael
- Bukharim
- Downtown Triangle
- Geula
- Givat HaVradim
- Givat Ram
- Jerusalem Gateway
- Katamon
- Kerem Avraham
- Kiryat HaLeom
- Kiryat HaMemshala
- Kiryat Shmuel
- Kiryat Shomrei Emunim
- Kiryat Wolfson
- Mahane Israel
- Mahane Yehuda
- Mea Shearim
- Mekor Baruch
- Mount Zion
- Musrara
- Nahalat Shiv'a
- Nachlaot
- Nayot
- Neve Granot
- Neve Sha'anan
- Rehavia
- Romema
- Russian Compound
- Sha'arei Hesed
- Shmuel HaNavi
- Talbiya (Komemiyut)
- Yemin Moshe
- Zikhron Moshe
- Al-Ram
- Beit Hanina
- Dahiyat al–Barid
- Ezrat Torah
- French Hill
- Givat HaMivtar
- Givat Moshe
- Har Hotzvim
- Kafr 'Aqab
- Kiryat Belz
- Kiryat Itri
- Kiryat Mattersdorf
- Kiryat Sanz
- Ma'alot Dafna
- Mount Scopus
- Neve Yaakov
- Pisgat Ze'ev
- Ramat Eshkol
- Ramat Shlomo
- Ramot
- Ramot Polin
- Sanhedria
- Sanhedria Murhevet
- Shikun Chabad
- Shuafat
- Tel Arza
- Unsdorf
- Arab al–Jahalin
- American Colony
- Al Bustan
- Al-Issawiya
- At-Tur
- Bab a-Zahara
- Bethany
- Ir David
- Jabel Mukaber
- Kiryat Menachem Begin
- Ma'ale HaZeitim
- Nahalat Shimon
- Nof Zion
- Ras al-Amud
- Sheikh Jarrah
- Shimon HaTzadik
- Silwan
- Wadi al-Joz
- Abu Tor
- Arnona
- Baka
- Beit Safafa
- East Talpiot
- German Colony
- Gilo
- Givat HaMatos
- Givat Oranim
- Givat Massuah
- Greek colony
- Har Homa
- Katamonim
- Malha
- Mekor Chaim
- Pat
- Ramat Rachel
- San Simon
- Sharafat
- Sur Baher
- Talpiot
- Umm Tuba
- Atarot
- Batei Munkacs
- Batei Saidoff
- Even Yisrael
- Ezrat Yisrael
- Kirya Ne'emana
- Knesset Yisrael
- Lifta
- Mahane Yehuda
- Mamilla
- Mazkeret Moshe
- Mishkenot Sha'ananim
- Mughrabi Quarter
- Ohel Shlomo
- Sha'arei Yerushalayim
- Sheikh Badr
- Zikhron Tuvya
- Zikhron Yosef
- See also: Courtyard neighborhood • Ring Neighborhoods
31°45′43″N 35°10′53″E / 31.76194°N 35.18139°E / 31.76194; 35.18139