Ramat Eshkol
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Ramat Eshkol is an Israeli settlement and neighborhood in northern East Jerusalem. It was built on land captured from Jordan in the Six-Day War and occupied by Israel since 1967, and was the first set
View of Ramat Eshkol apartment buildings
Paran Street in Ramat Eshkol
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Construction in 1969 of the Israeli settlement of Ramat Eshkol, in East Jerusalem.
Battle of Ammunition Hill
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Ammunition Hill was a fortified Jordanian military post in the northern part of Jordanian-ruled East Jerusalem and the western slope of Mount Scopus. It was the site of one of the fiercest battles of
Ramat Eshkol
…neighborhood. In 1966, the border with Jordan ran parallel to Shmuel HaNavi Street. Beyond was a no man's land and the bunkers and fortifications of Ammunition Hill, the site of fierce battles between Jordanian and Israeli forces in the 1967 war. According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 416 dunams of land from the…
Trenches on Ammunition Hill, 1967, with the apartment buildings of the Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood in the background
Bunkers and trenches on Ammunition Hill
Sign for Ammunition Hill museum
The water tower