Birket Israel (trans. Pool of Israel) also Birket Israil or Birket Isra'in,[1] abbreviated from Birket Beni Israìl (trans. Pool of the Children of Israel) was a public cistern located on the north-eastern corner of the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem. The structure is believed to have been built either in the Late Roman or the Umayyad period[2] for use as a water reservoir and also to protect the northern wall of the Temple Mount. Hackett attests that Arab locals knew it by this name in 1857.[3]
By the mid-19th century it had gone out of use as a reservoir; being partly filled with rubbish and reused as a vegetable garden. In 1934 it was filled in and is now known as el-Ghazali Square. It is currently in mixed use for shops, as a car park, and as a transshipment point for refuse.
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^ Gibson, Shimon (2011). "The Excavations at the Bethesda Pool in Jerusalem: Preliminary Report on a Project of Stratigraphic and Structural Analysis (1999-2009)". Proche-Orient Chrétien (special issue). Missionaries of Africa: 17-45 (18, cont. of note 1). Retrieved 28 May 2024 – via academia.edu.
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