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    Museum of Underground Prisoners is a museum in Jerusalem, commemorating the activity of the Jewish underground—Haganah, Irgun and Lehi—during the period...
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    Russian Compound (category Museums in Jerusalem)
    one of which hosts the Museum of Underground Prisoners. The compound was built between 1860 and 1890, with the addition in 1903 of the Nikolai Pilgrims...
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    Jerusalem syndrome (category Culture of Jerusalem)
    home to return to Jerusalem. The catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2016 show about an earlier era of the city's history used the syndrome as...
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    releasing 5,000 Muslim prisoners, made demands for the restoration of other churches destroyed by al-Hakim and the reestablishment of a patriarch in Jerusalem...
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  • Haganah (category History of Zionism)
    and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. The Museum of Underground Prisoners in Jerusalem commemorates the activity of the underground groups in the pre-state period...
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  • 1947. 12 members of the Jewish terrorist groups Irgun and Lehi escaped from the central prison (today the Museum of Underground Prisoners) in Jerusalem,...
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    romanized: al-Qala'a), is an ancient citadel and contemporary museum, located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. The citadel that stands today dates...
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    King David Hotel (category The Leading Hotels of the World)
    Arabic: فندق الملك داود) is a 5-star hotel in Jerusalem and a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. Opened in 1931, it was built with locally quarried pink...
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    7738389°N 35.2430694°E / 31.7738389; 35.2430694 The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives (Hebrew: בֵּית הַקְּבָרוֹת הַיְּהוּדִי בְּהַר הַזֵּיתִים, romanized: Bejt...
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    Rockefeller Archeological Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum ("PAM"; 1938–1967), is an archaeology museum located in East Jerusalem...
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  • Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Both the Moscovia Detention Centre and the nearby Museum of Underground Prisoners are yellow brick buildings...
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    after long-time Mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, who was in office during the time of its initial construction and was one of its prominent advocates...
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    Arab Souk (Old City) (category Economy of Jerusalem)
    Market of Wondrous Expectations or Suq El-Bazar, is a large bazaar occupying approximately 100 acres (400,000 m2) of area in the Old City of Jerusalem...
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    Seven Arches Hotel (category Mount of Olives)
    East Jerusalem in the Arab neighborhood of at-Tur on the Mount of Olives. The hotel overlooks the old city of Jerusalem. The hotel was built by the Jordanian...
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    The Shrine of the Book (Hebrew: היכל הספר, Heikhal HaSefer) is a wing of the Israel Museum in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem that houses the Dead...
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    The plot of land next to Heichal Shlomo was purchased with the efforts of Dr Moshe Avrohom Yaffe, chairman of the Board of Management of Heichal Shlomo...
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    معهد ل. أ. مئير للفن الإسلامي) is an art museum in Jerusalem, established in 1974. Located on the corner of HaPalmach Street in Katamon, near the Jerusalem...
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    Gedolei Ha'Uma. Olei Hagardom plot: Jewish underground fighters executed for their activities Common grave of the 204 illegal immigrants who went down with...
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    Holy Fire (category Church of the Holy Sepulchre)
    Ἃγιον Φῶς, "Holy Light") is a ceremony that occurs every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Great Saturday, the day before Orthodox...
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    The National Library of Israel (NLI; Hebrew: הספרייה הלאומית, romanized: HaSifria HaLeumit; Arabic: المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National...
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    Bloomfield Science Museum is a science museum in Jerusalem, established in 1992. The museum is located opposite the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in the...
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    Library for the Archeology of Israel, and serve as a museum of archaeology. Construction began in 2012 with the excavation of an enormous foundation cut...
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    Jerusalem. The Palace Hotel was built on Agron Street based on the plans of two Turkish architects Ahmet Kemmaledin and Mehmed Nehad, who were also hired...
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    Jerusalem Festival of Light is a week-long Israeli light festival held every summer in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Festival of Light was established in 2009...
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  • Thumbnail for The Friends of Zion Museum
    Friends of Zion Museum (Hebrew: מוזיאון ידידי ישראל) is a museum in the historic Nahalat Shiv'a neighborhood of downtown Jerusalem. The museum celebrates...
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    Jerusalem Botanical Gardens (category Bible-themed museums, zoos, and botanical gardens)
    The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens (JBG) is a botanical garden and a center of botanical education and research in Jerusalem, Israel. The largest botanical...
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    neighborhood of Jerusalem. Originally known as the Laromme, the hotel was designed by architect Yaakov Rechter. It opened in 1982 on a tract of land adjacent...
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    Gate it split into two main branches, the eastern Cardo following the route of the modern day "HaGai" street and the western Cardo which ascended towards...
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  • 2015), was an American painter, installation artist, and founder of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles. When talking about his work, Davis has said, "if...
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    consist of two graves adjacent to the Jaffa Gate on the inner side of the Walls of Jerusalem. According to tradition, the graves belong to engineers of Sultan...
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