Ramat Denya (

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: רמת דניה) (lit. "Denya Heights") is a neighborhood in

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. It was established in 1970 between Kiryat Hayovel and

Bayit Vegan Bayit VeGan ( he, בית וגן, lit. ''House and Garden'') is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem. Bayit VeGan is located to the east of Mount Herzl and borders the neighborhoods of Kiryat HaYovel and Givat Mordechai. History Bronze Age A 4 ...

, 780 meters above sea level. Denya was the name of the development company that built the first apartment buildings.

Streets

The streets in Ramat Denya are named for: Abel Pann (1887–1963), an artist and teacher at the

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; Aryeh (Louis) Kobovy (1896–1966) a Labor Zionist leader in Belgium and Israeli consul to Poland and Czechoslovakia; Zeitlin in memory of two brothers, Hillel (1872–1943), a philosopher and researcher of

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who was killed by the

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, and Aharon (1898–1973), a writer and poet; Edward Gelber (1904–1971), a Canadian Zionist leader who emigrated to Israel in 1954 and his wife Hanna a notable physician and a

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leader in Israel; Yosef Haim Shrim (1851–1949), rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community; Zvi Leibowitz (1897–1980), a Jerusalem municipal planner who oversaw the transport of supplies to Jerusalem during the siege of 1948.Jerusalem neighborhoods
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Notable residents

Shlomo Hillel Shlomo Hillel ( he, שלמה הלל, 23 April 1923 – 8 February 2021) was an Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician who served as Speaker of the Knesset, Minister of Police, Minister of Internal Affairs, and ambassador to several countri ...

* Yotam Ottolenghi - chef and TV presenter

References

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