Beit Orot

31°47′08″N 35°14′47″E / 31.78556°N 35.24639°E / 31.78556; 35.24639

Beit Orot (Hebrew: בית אורות, lit. The House of Lights) is a Jewish neighborhood on the northern ridge on the Mount of Olives, in East Jerusalem, near the Augusta Victoria Hospital and the Palestinian neighbourhood of At-Tur.[1][2]

The Irving Moskowitz Yeshiva & Campus, a Religious Zionist Hesder yeshiva is the nucleus of the neighborhood.[3]

  1. ^ Hasson, Nir (31 January 2011). "Officials lay cornerstone for new Jewish East Jerusalem Neighborhood". Haaretz.
  2. ^ Rudoren, Jodi (16 March 2013). "In Jerusalem, Jewish Apartments in Arab Neighborhoods Complicate Issue". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Overview Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine at BeitOrot.org