Malha

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The Manahat Technological Centre as seen from Manahat. The Teddy Kollek Football Stadium is partially visible behind it, and to its left, the Jerusalem Shopping Mall.

Malha (Hebrew: מלחה‎) is a neighborhood in south-west Jerusalem, Israel. It is named for a Jewish village that existed there in Biblical times, and is mentioned in the Bible. Archaeological excavations have turned up remains from Bronze Age and Roman times.

Many years after the destruction of the Second Temple the depopulated village came to be inhabited by Muslim Arabs, who pronounced the place-name "Malha". The village was essentially agricultural in character.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Malha was captured by Jewish troops of the Irgun. Its Arab inhabitants moved several kilometres away to Bethlehem which remained under Arab control. The vacated houses were soon populated by Jewish refugees from Middle Eastern countries, mainly Iraq.

Some years later and now under the jurisdiction of the Municipality of Jerusalem, the village was modernised and a large housing development was established on the nearby hill and its eastern slopes, called Manahat. This area soon became one of the better neighbourhoods of Jewish Jerusalem. At the bottom of Manahat Hill lie the large Malha Shopping Mall, the Teddy Stadium, and Jerusalem Malha Railway Station.

Manahat also has a Vocational High School (ORT) and a primary school. The Manahat Technological Centre with its ultra-modern architecture is a major focus of hi-tech start-ups.