Katamon or Qatamon is a neighborhood in south-central Jerusalem.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,095 |
12 Facts About Katamon
2.
Katamon is bounded by the neighborhoods of Talbiya in the northeast and the German Colony and Greek Colony to the southeast.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,096 |
3.
In 1681 Cornelis de Bruijn made an engraving of Jerusalem, which suggested that there was an L-shaped, four-story-high tower in Katamon, confirming an early seventeenth-century source which mentioned a "house and tower" of "Simeon the prophet".
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,097 |
4.
About half of Katamon's buildings were built between 1927 and 1937, and the rest were built until 1948.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,098 |
5.
Hala al-Sakakini, the daughter of Palestinian scholar and poet Khalil al-Sakakini and a resident of Katamon, described in her diary how frightened residents fled their homes and did not respond to the orders to remain.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,099 |
6.
Katamon's men were equipped with light weapons and homemade armoured vehicles as well as ones looted from the battle of Nabi Daniel.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,100 |
7.
Some of Katamon's buildings were designated for public needs, such as synagogues, schools, kindergartens and places for elders.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,101 |
8.
Katamon attracted many people because of the character of its small "Arab styled" houses, with yards, stone walls and gates, porches, tiled roofs and stylized floors, located close to the city's center.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,102 |
9.
Major landmark in Katamon is the Saint Simeon monastery, known to Jerusalemites as San Simon, on a hilltop to the north.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,103 |
10.
Katamon is home to the Israel Goldstein Youth Village, which has a number of school programs, especially for Russian and French Olim.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,104 |
11.
Katamon was the home of several foreign consulates, among them the Greek consulate, the Italian consulate, and the Costa-Rican consulate.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,105 |
12.
Katamon Khet was built at the end of the 1950s, and Katamon Tet in the mid-1960s.
| FactSnippet No. 2,510,106 |