Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center (Jerusalem)

Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center (Hebrew: בית החולים כפר שאול), established in 1951, is an Israeli public psychiatric hospital located between Givat Shaul and Har Nof, Jerusalem. It is affiliated with the Hadassah Medical Center and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The hospital is Jerusalem's designated psychiatric hospital for tourists who display mental health disturbances, and is widely known for its research on Jerusalem Syndrome. The center is part of the wider Jerusalem Mental Health Center system, which also includes Eitanim Hospital and community psychiatric clinics serving Jerusalem and nearby municipalities. In addition to inpatient psychiatric care, Kfar Shaul has been associated with psychiatric epidemiology, transcultural psychiatry, travel-related psychosis, and neurophysiological research. The hospital is located on the grounds of the former Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, and makes use of buildings that remained intact after the massacre of Deir Yassin that occurred during the 1948 Palestine War.