Ramat Rachel

Ramat Rachel
רָמַת רָחֵל
رمات راحيل
Ramat Rachel is located in Jerusalem
Ramat Rachel
Ramat Rachel
Coordinates: 31°44′24″N 35°13′8″E / 31.74000°N 35.21889°E / 31.74000; 35.21889
CountryIsrael
DistrictJerusalem
CouncilMateh Yehuda
AffiliationKibbutz Movement
Founded1926
Founded byJerusalem Brigade of Gdud HaAvoda
Population
 (2022)[1]
550
Websitewww.ramatrachel.co.il

Ramat Rachel or Ramat Raḥel (Hebrew: רָמַת רָחֵל, lit.'Rachel's Heights') is a kibbutz located in central Israel. An enclave within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries, near the neighborhoods Arnona and Talpiot, and overlooking Bethlehem and Rachel's Tomb (for which the kibbutz is named), it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2022, it had a population of 550.[1]

According to archaeologists, Ramat Rachel "replaced Jerusalem as the economic and political hub of the southern highlands" in ancient times.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ Gadot, Yuval (2015). "In the Valley of the King: Jerusalem's Rural Hinterland in the 8th-4th Centuries BCE". Tel Aviv. 42 (1): 3–26. doi:10.1179/0334435515Z.00000000043. S2CID 129413179.