- Givat Ram
Givat Ram ( _he. גבעת רם, originally _he. גבעת ריכוז-מפקדים, lit. "Hill of Officers Assembly" [Yad Ben Zvi website (Hebrew) [http://www.ybz.org.il/?ArticleID=1492] ] [Jerusalem Municipality website [http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/english/sys/tour/vir_tour/show/show_tour.asp?tour_id=115] ] ) is a neighborhood in central
Jerusalem ,Israel . TheKnesset and Israeli government offices are located in Givat Ram, as are theIsrael Museum , one of the four campuses of theHebrew University of Jerusalem , theIsraeli Supreme Court and theBinyanei HaUma convention center.History
Before Israel's War of Independence in 1948, the area was known by the Arabs as
Sheikh Badr . In December 1949, the Israeli government headed byDavid Ben-Gurion , passed a resolution to build a government precinct in Jerusalem. Givat Ram, a hill in the west of the city, which had been an assembly point for the Gadna Youth Battalions, was chosen for this purpose. The topography of the site, made up of three ridges, meshed with the idea of establishing three clusters of buildings - the government precinct, a university campus and a museum. [http://www.google.com/search?q=givat+ram&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2006-01,GGLD:en]References
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