Editing Talpiot (section)

==Notable residents==
[[File:Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 1924.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]]]]
[[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]], settled in Talpiot in 1924 and wrote most of his important works there. After his death, his home was turned into a museum, [[Beit Agnon]], where his study has been preserved intact.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://agnonhouse.org.il/english/| title=Agnon House| work=agnonhouse.org.il}}</ref>

One of Agnon's neighbors was the eminent scholar [[Joseph Klausner]], uncle of Israeli author [[Amos Oz]]. In his autobiographical novel ''[[A Tale of Love and Darkness]]'', Oz writes that Agnon and Klausner were not fond of one another and kept their distance.

The founder of [[Modern Hebrew language|Modern Hebrew]], [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]], built a home on Ein Gedi Street in Talpiot, [[Beit Ben-Yehuda]], but died before moving in. Today it serves as a guesthouse and meeting center.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beit-ben-yehuda.org/index.php?id=25 |title=Beit Ben Yehudah|publisher=Beit-ben-yehuda.org |access-date=November 8, 2012}}</ref>