Givat Ram

Givat Ram (Hebrew: גִּבְעַת רָם‎) is a neighborhood in central Jerusalem. Many of Israel's most important national institutions are located in Givat Ram, among them the Parliament (Knesset), the Israel Museum (as well as the private Bible Lands Museum), the Supreme Court, Bank of Israel, Academy of the Hebrew Language, National Library, one of the campuses of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and many government ministries' offices.

Ram is a Hebrew acronym for Rikuz Mefakdim – Hebrew: גבעת ריכוז-מפקדים‎‎, lit. officers' assembly, therefore Giv'at Ram means Officers' assembly hill.

Before 1948, maps of the area drawn by the Survey of Palestine team tagged it as Karam es Sila.

The name indicates it was a Karam (grape field) belonging to Sala (שלה might be originally סלע or سلع) family or the grape field near stone quarries.

Before Israel's War of Independence in 1948, the area in the north was known by the Arabs as Sheikh Badr. In December 1949, the Israeli government headed by David Ben-Gurion, passed a resolution to build a government precinct in Jerusalem. Givat Ram, a hill in the west of the city, which had been an assembly point for the Gadna Youth Battalions, was chosen for this purpose. The topography of the site, made up of three ridges, meshed with the idea of establishing three clusters of buildings – the government precinct, a university campus and a museum.

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