Tal al-Shaykh Badr

Old Train Station

It was a Palestinian Arab village on a hilltop south of Jaffa Road in western Jerusalem, bordered to the north by the Romema colony, which was built in 1921. The Arab village

was a semi-rural village famous for its wheat. 

 Remains of Al-Shaykh Badr

Archaeological excavations indicate that the area of Sheikh Badr was inhabited from the Iron Age II to the Byzantine period (late 8th century BCE to early 7th century CE).

Sheikh Badr and Lifta were the first Arab villages to undergo mass evacuation by the

       New colony on Tal Shaikh Badr’s lands

Zionist Haganah terrorist militia during the 1947–1948 ethnic cleansing war in Mandatory Palestine. On January 11, 1948, the Haganah militia blew up the home of the village mukhtar, and two days later it launched another raid on Sheikh Badr, damaging 20 houses. Its residents were forced to evacuate their homes between January 14 and 19. Settlers of the Nahlaot colony made several raids on the deserted village, destroying and setting fire to the remaining property.

A Park was built on Tal Shaikh Badr’s land