Ramat Eshkol

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.

[citation needed] According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 416 dunams of land from the Palestinian neighbourhood of Shuafat in order to construct Ramat Eshkol.

"Eshkol Heights") was the first new neighborhood built in Jerusalem after the Six Day War, along the route to Mount Scopus, Hadassah Hospital and the Hebrew University.

[4] Plans were drawn up for tree-lined streets, small parks, a neighborhood health clinic and a commercial center with a supermarket.

Government policy at the time was to create a contiguous link from Shmuel Hanavi to French Hill and the campus of Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Mount Scopus.

Ramat Eshkol also has a park dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved many Jews during World War II.

View of Ramat Eshkol apartment buildings
Paran Street in Ramat Eshkol
Levi Eshkol
The neighborhood while it was being built in 1969
Ammunition Hill park
Aerial view of Shmuel Hanavi, Givat Hamivtar and Ramat Eshkol