Sheikh Badr

Sheikh Badr شيخ بدر
Village
Sheikh Badr house, 2008
Etymology: from personal name[1]
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Sheikh Badr Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°47′10″N 35°12′13″E / 31.78611°N 35.20361°E / 31.78611; 35.20361
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	January 14–19, 1948

Sheikh Badr (Arabic: تلة الشيخ بدر, romanized: Talla aš-Šayḫ Badr, lit. 'Hill of Sheikh Badr' Arabic pronunciation: [tɑl.let ɑʃ.ʃeːx badᵉr] ^ⓘ;^[2] Hebrew: שייח' באדר) was a Palestinian Arab village on a hilltop in west Jerusalem. The Haganah expelled its population during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.^[3] From 1948 to 1951, Sheikh Badr Cemetery, 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.