Katamonim

Katamon or Qatamon (Arabic: قطمون‎‎ Katamun, Hebrew: קטמון‎, Greek: Καταμώνας Katamónas) is a Jewish neighbourhood in south-central Jerusalem. The official Hebrew name, Gonen (גּוֹנֵן‎), is only used in municipal publications. Katamon is derived from the Greek κατὰ τῷ μοναστηρίῳ ("by the monastery").

The neighborhood is built next to an old Greek Orthodox monastery, believed to be built on the home and the tomb of Simeon from the Gospel of Luke. The neighborhood was established in the early 1900s, shortly before World War I as a wealthy, predominantly Christian neighborhood. During the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine the local population fled the neighborhood and it was soon repopulated by Jewish refugees.

Katamon is bounded by the neighborhoods of Talbiya in the northeast, and the German Colony and Greek Colony to the southeast. The neighbourhood is bounded on its south side by Rachel Imenu street and Hizkiyahu Ha'Melech street (separating it from the Greek Colony), and on its east side by Kovshey Katamon street (separating it from Talbiya). These streets connect to Emek Refaim and Rehov ha-Palmach, respectively.

During the British Mandate era the streets of Katamon had no names, with the exception of two: "Katamon" street (today known as "Rachel Imenu" and "Hizkiyahu HaMelech") and "Jorden" street (today known as "Tel Hai" street) which was nicknamed "Michael Sansour" street, who was a wealthy contractor whose house was in the street. The buildings were not numbered and were named after the families who built them. After Israel's independence names were given to the roads based on subjects such as the 1948 war, biblical characters and Zionist figures.

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