page_title: Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness
section_title: Historic landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness / Historic landmarks
caption_attribution_description: Building in Ramot Polin Neighborhood, Jerusalem, Israel
context_page_description: Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess Kolel Polen, known also by the initials Kupat RaMBaN [קופת רמבעה"ן - כולל פולין], is a charity organization founded in 1796 in Poland by the Torah leaders of European Jewry. It is named after the tanna Rabbi Meir. Present leaders of the organization include Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Lipschitz, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter of Ger, Rabbi Meir Auerbach of Kalish, Rabbi Chaim Elazar Wax, Rabbi Aharon Menachem Mendel Radzimin, Rabbi of Kutna, and Rabbi Yaakov Meir Biderman.
context_section_description: (1868) The Varshever shul (Warsaw synagogue) was founded in the north of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City.
  (1878) The president of the kollel, Rabbi Chaim Elozor Wax, buys land in the village of Kfar Hittim for Balady citron groves.
  (1878) Foundation of the school Chayei Olam [ת"ת חיי עולם] in the Eastern part of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City.
  (1886) The Kolel purchased four residential yards to become a Jewish settlement in the Bab Al Huta neighborhood, in the northeast of the Old City.
  (1894) Began building the Batei Warsaw neighborhood.
  (1972) Construction of the neighborhood of Ramot Polin began.
caption: 'Ramot Polin Apartments', designed by Zvi Hecker
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