Bayit VeGan (Hebrew: בית וגן, lit. House and Garden, also BayitVagan) is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem. It is located to the east of Mount Herzl, and borders the neighborhoods of Kiryat HaYovel and Givat Mordechai.
A 4,000-year-old cemetery and many Canaanite artifacts were discovered in an archeological dig at the edge of Bayit VeGan. The cemetery covers an area of more than half an acre (0.2 hectare), and burials are believed to have taken place there mainly in the Bronze Age, in 2200-2000 BCE and 1700-1600 BCE.[1] Excavations began in 1995 but the most interesting finds were discovered in 2005.[2]
Crusader periodedit
The Orthodox monastery of Mar Saba owned a farmstead in this area in the 12th century, during the existence of the Catholic Kingdom of Jerusalem established by Crusaders.[3]
British Mandate periodedit
During the British Mandate, the army built one of its radar stations in the neighborhood. A synagogue, Beit Knesset Migdal ("The Tower"), now stands on the spot.[4]
Bayit VeGan was the third neighborhood built in West Jerusalem in modern times.[5]
Many schools and Jewish religious institutions are located in the neighborhood, among them Ateret Yisrael Yeshiva, Kol Torah Yeshiva, Netivot Chochma Yeshiva, Yeshiva University's Gruss Kollel and Torat Tziyon program, Yeshivat Torat Shraga, Tiferet Yerushalayim,[7] Michlalah Jerusalem College for Women,[8] Seminar Yerushalayim HaChadash, Yad Harav Herzog, Himmelfarb High School, Boys Town Jerusalem, and Netiv Meir Yeshiva High School. The Amshinover Rebbe has his court in Bayit VeGan, on Rabbi Frank Street. The Boyar School, a secular high school for gifted students from all over the country, is also located in Bayit VeGan.[9]
The Beitar Jerusalem soccer club has a practice field in the neighborhood.[10] Below the soccer field run its 2 tunnels for the new 16 route.
Hotels and guesthousesedit
In recent years, a hotel by the name of Malon Hen (Hebrew: מלון חן lit. Hen Hotel) was built on the corner of Hapisga Street, and a youth hostel on the same street was upgraded to a guesthouse.
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