Bayit Vegan

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Coordinates: 31°46′0″N, 35°10′59″E Bayit Vegan (Hebrew: בית וגן‎), which translates from Hebrew as "house and garden" (although most 'gardens' are now gone) is a mostly Haredi Ultra Orthodox neighborhood in southwest-central Jerusalem, Israel.

Bait Vegan sprawls from the eastern side of the mountain otherwise known as Mount Herzl, which is the location for the park of the same name, the Yad Vashem museum, and the Mt. Herzel Military Cemetery, to the neighborhoods of Kiryat Yovel, and Givat Mordechai; the terraced apartment houses of Beit Vegan overlook the Shaarey Zedek hospital and Beit HaKerem.

At an altitude of 837 metres, the summit of the mountain is the highest point in Jerusalem, which means that it is also the coldest and the windiest. Starting at the summit, where Herzl Boulevard serves as the boundary between the park of the same name and Bayit Vegan, HaPisga ("The Summit") Street, settled mostly by Ashkenazi Jews cuts straight into the center of the neighborhood. Generally parallel to it, Bayit Vegan Street, settled by Sephardi Jews and a recent wave of French Jews, runs almost to the end of the neighborhood, eventually joining HaPisga Street.

HaPisga Street is also the location of one of the earliest radar stations in use by the British military; the site has been converted into the Migdal ("The Tower") Synagogue.

Angels' Bakery was esatblished in Bayit veGan in 1927, where it remained until 1959.^[1]

Institutions in Bayit veGan include Kol Torah yeshiva and Tiferet Yerushalayim.^[2] The Amshinover Rebbe has his court in Bayit veGan, in Rabbi Frank St.