History
Under Jordanian rule, the area (Arabic: Karm el-Wiz) was a military outpost. According to Arab historian Walid Khalidi, a small number of Arabs from Lifta moved to the area prior to 1967. In 1969, construction began on a new residential neighborhood to create a land link between West Jerusalem and the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, which had been an Israeli enclave in Jordanian territory before the war. The official name of the new neighborhood was Giv'at Shapira. Another section of French Hill, Tzameret HaBira, was populated mainly by American immigrants.
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