Sheikh Badr
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Sheikh Badr house, 2008
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| Arabic | شيخ بدر |
| Name meaning | from personal name |
| Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
| Coordinates | 31°46′20.1″N 35°11′50.04″E / 31.772250°N 35.1972333°ECoordinates: 31°46′20.1″N 35°11′50.04″E / 31.772250°N 35.1972333°E |
| Date of depopulation | January 14–19, 1948 |
Sheikh Badr (Arabic: شيخ بدر, Hebrew: שייח' באדר) was a Palestinian Arab village on a hilltop in west Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on the order of the Haganah. From 1948 to 1951, a temporary Jewish cemetery was established here; a few hundred graves still remain from that time. After 1949, the area was incorporated into a new area called Givat Ram. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Givat Ram, the Supreme Court of Israel, and the Jerusalem International Convention Center were built on land formerly belonging to the village.
Sheikh Badr was on a hilltop south of Jaffa Road, extending from the present-day Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Givat Ram to the Jerusalem International Convention Center (Binyanei HaUma). Its western flank was bordered to the north by the Jewish neighborhood of Romema, founded in 1921, placing it close to the entrance to the city of Jerusalem.
An Ottoman village list of about 1870 described Schech Bedr as a Muslim Wali in Jerusalem, with ruins from earlier settlements.
During the British Mandate for Palestine, Sheikh Badr was a semi-rural Arab village in western Jerusalem which benefited from its proximity to the major Jewish neighborhoods and thus increased employment opportunities. The villagers grew wheat in what is now Sacher Park.
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