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Jerusalem Road 16
Highway 16 (or Ariel Sharon Blvd) is a highway at the western entrance to Jerusalem providing direct access to the southern and central sections of the city from the west. Most of the road is located inside newly built tunnels. The project cost approximately 1.5 billion shekels, and was inaugurated a year ahead of schedule on 31 August 2022. Highway The highway connects Highway 1 at the new Motza Interchange and Jerusalem's Highway 50 (Begin Boulevard) at Givat Mordechai Interchange. The road travels mostly through a series of tunnels under the west Jerusalem neighborhoods of Har Nof and Yefeh Nof and the parking lots of Shaare Zedek Medical Center. In the center, an above ground interchange was built in the valley of Nahal Revida (Revida Stream) adjacent to the Pi Glilot Fuel Terminal to connect to Derech Yosef Weitz leading to Givat Shaul. The road was constructed as a four lane freeway with a speed limit of 80 km/h. History The road was first proposed in the 1990s. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talmud
The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the centerpiece of Jewish cultural life and was foundational to "all Jewish thought and aspirations", serving also as "the guide for the daily life" of Jews. The term ''Talmud'' normally refers to the collection of writings named specifically the Babylonian Talmud (), although there is also an earlier collection known as the Jerusalem Talmud (). It may also traditionally be called (), a Hebrew abbreviation of , or the "six orders" of the Mishnah. The Talmud has two components: the Mishnah (, 200 CE), a written compendium of the Oral Torah; and the Gemara (, 500 CE), an elucidation of the Mishnah and related Tannaitic writings that often ventures onto other subjects and expounds broadly on the Hebrew Bible. The term "Talmud" may refer to eith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beit Zayit
Beit Zayit ( he, בֵּית זַיִת, , House of Olives) is a moshav in Israel. Located just outside the Jerusalem municipal border to the west, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of . Beit Zayit lies on the edge of the Jerusalem Forest and operates a public swimming pool. Nearby is the Ein Kerem dam, built to store winter flood waters. History A village named Beit Zayit is mentioned in the book of the Maccabees, but it is believed to have been further north, possibly at the site of the Palestinian Christian town of Bir Zeit, north of Ramallah. Beit Zayit was established on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of 'Ayn Karim. The village was established in 1949 by Jewish immigrants from Egypt, Romania and Yugoslavia. The economy was based on fruit orchards, vegetables, poultry, and other farm products. With the expansion of the moshav in the late 1990s, including the purchase of land by newcome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motza
Motza, also Mozah or Motsa, ( he, מוֹצָא, ar, موتسا) is a neighbourhood on the western edge of West Jerusalem. It is located in the Judean Hills, 600 metres above sea level, connected to Jerusalem by the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway and the winding mountain road to Har Nof. Established in 1854, Motza was the first Jewish farm founded outside the walls of the Old City in the modern era. It is believed to be located on the site of a Biblical village of the same name mentioned in . History Antiquity Motza is the site of the Canaanite and later Israelite town of Mozah, which according to the Hebrew Bible was allotted by Joshua to the Tribe of Benjamin (). The name Mozah was found stamped on pottery handles in Tell en-Nasbeh, a site identified with the biblical city of Mizpah, also in the territory of Benjamin. In 2012, Israeli archaeologists discovered an Israelite cultic building at Tel Motza, dating to the monarchic period ( Iron Age IIA). Second Temple period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 50 (Israel–Palestine)
Begin Expressway he, link=no, שדרות מנחם בגין, Kvish Begin , length_km= 13.5 , length_notes= 16.2 km (10 mi)upon completion of Begin South , formed=June 1998 , direction_a=South , terminus_a=*Rozmarin Interchange(HaMinharot Junction) , direction_b=North , terminus_b=*Atarot Junction , junction=*Dov Yosef Interchange *Malha Interchange *Golomb Interchange *Givat Mordechai Interchange *Kiryat Moshe Interchange *Givat Shaul Interchange *Golda Meir Interchange *Yigael Yadin Interchange *Benzion Netanyahu Interchange , cities= JerusalemNeighborhoods:Gilo, Beit Safafa, Malha/Manahat, Holyland, Katamonim, Bayit VeGan, Beit HaKerem, Givat Mordechai, Kiryat Moshe, Kiryat HaLeom, Givat Shaul, Har Hotzvim, Ramot, Beit Hanina, Atarot , districts= , previous_route = 46 , previous_type = Hwy , next_route = 55 , next_type = Hwy Highway 50 (formerly ''Route 404''), officially called Begin Boulevard ( he, שדרות בגין, Sderot Begin) and also referred to as Menachem Begi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yisrael Katz (politician Born 1955)
Israel Katz ( ''Yisrael Katz'', born 21 September 1955) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud. He was a member of the Security Cabinet of Israel. He has previously held the posts of Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Transportation, Minister of Intelligence, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance. Early life Israel Katz was born in Ashkelon to Meir and Malka Katz. His parents Meir Katz and his mother Malka (Nira), born Deutsch were Holocaust survivors from the region of Maramureș, Romania. He was raised on moshav Kfar Ahim. He drafted into the IDF in 1973. He volunteered as a paratrooper in the Paratroopers Brigade. He served as a soldier and a squad leader. In 1976 he became an infantry officer after completing Officer Candidate School and returned to the Paratroopers Brigade as a platoon leader. After his discharge in 1977, he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and graduated with a BA and an MA from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
