Ramot, East Jerusalem

Ramot redirect here. For the moshav in the Golan Heights, see Ramot, Golan Heights.

View of the oldest part of Ramot from the Begin road highway. The highway is also visible.

Ramot (Hebrew: רָמוֹת, lit. Heights), also known as Ramot Alon (Hebrew: רמות אלון), is an Israeli settlement and neighborhood in East Jerusalem.[1][2][3] Ramot was founded in 1974 as one of Jerusalem's so-called "Ring settlements", considered illegal under international law.[4] In 2020, Ramot had a population of 50,400[5] of which 75% consists of Haredi Jews.[6]

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  2. ^ "Israel court jails Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi". BBC News. 6 November 2012.
  3. ^ Cohen, Shaul Ephraim (1993). The Politics of Planting: Israeli-Palestinian Competition for Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery. University of Chicago Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780226112763. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  4. ^ "The Geneva Convention". BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
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  6. ^ "Indicators for ultra-orthodox society in Jerusalem, 2020" (PDF). Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research. 2020.