Givat Shaul (Hebrew: גבעת שאול‎, lit. (Saul’s Hill) is a adjacency in western Jerusalem called afterwards the Rishon Lezion, Rabbi Yaakov Shaul Elyashar, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel,[1] and not, as frequently believed, for the biblical King Saul, whose basic was apparently amid on the acropolis Gibeah of Saul abreast Pisgat Ze’ev, on the way to Ramallah.

The adjacency is amid at the western access to the city, east of the adjacency of Har Nof and arctic of Kiryat Moshe. Givat Shaul stands 820 meters aloft sea level.

Givat Shaul was accustomed in 1906 on acreage purchased from the Arab villages of Deir Yassin and Lifta by Rabbi Nissim Elyashar, Arieh Leib and Moshe Kopel Kantrovitz. The aboriginal settlers were primarily Yemenite Jews who affianced in agriculture. Later, they were abutting by families from Meah Shearim and the Old City.

The Ashkenazim congenital the aboriginal accessible building, Beit Knesset HaPerushim. In 1912, an adornment and bed-making branch was opened with the advice of a Jewish philanthropist, Rabbi Slutzkin. Other industries accustomed in Givat Shaul were the Froumine biscuit factory, a branch for kerosene heaters that bogus accoutrements for the British army during the British Mandate of Palestine, and a matza factory.[2]

The adjacency was destroyed over the advance of several wars, including World War I, and rebuilt in 1919.[3] In 1927, the Diskin Orphanage confused to Givat Shaul from the Old City. This building, advised by a bounded artist called Tabachnik, was home to 500 drop boys.[2]

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Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center

Until the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the adjacency of Givat Shaul active alone the eastern, residential area. A long, clay clue afar this Jewish adjacency from a array of Arab villages, including the apple of Deir Yassin, on the western ambit of Jerusalem. During the Arab annoy of Jerusalem, aback convoys were generally attacked on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, the aback anchorage from Tel Aviv — like the one arch to Givat Shaul — became crucially important.

In backward 1946, the Haganah straightened and paved the clay clue in adjustment to use it as a landing strip. At the acme of the siege, the Haganah flew in supplies, armaments, aliment and alike soldiers on this runway. Afterwards the war, this alley became accepted as Kanfei Nesharim Street.[4][5]

On 3 April 1948, the Haganah launched Operation Nachshon to abduction the aerial arena on both abandon of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway. On 9 April it fought to achieve Castel (at Latrun); simultaneously, the Irgun and Lehi armament attacked the apple of Deir Yassin, which was home to about 600 residents. About 107 bodies were dead in the attack, now accepted as the Deir Yassin massacre.

The Israelis expelled the actual association and repopulated the breadth with Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. The centermost of the apple was renamed Givat Shaul Bet.[8] In 1951, the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Centermost was congenital application some of the actual barrio of the village.