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Bethlehem [a] is a city in the West Bank of Palestine, located about ten kilometres (six miles) south of Jerusalem. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate , and as of 2017 had a population of 28,591 people.
The Bethlehem Governorate (Arabic: محافظة بيت لحم, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat Bayt Laḥm) is one of 16 Governorates of Palestine. It covers an area of the West Bank , south of Jerusalem .
Solomon's Pools, consisting of three large reservoirs, are situated several dozen meters apart, each pool with a roughly 6 metres (20 ft) drop to the next.They are rectangular or trapezoidal in shape, partly hewn into the bedrock and partly built, between 118 and 179 metres (387–587 ft) long and 8 to 23 metres (26–75 ft) deep, with a total capacity of well over a quarter of a million cubic ...
In Bethlehem, a decree from the West Bank’s governing Palestinian Authority mandates that the city’s mayor, deputy mayor and a majority of the municipal council must be Christians.
The tomb, located at the northern entrance to the West Bank city of Bethlehem, next to the Rachel's Tomb checkpoint, is built in the style of a traditional maqam, Arabic for shrine. [ 5 ] The burial place of the matriarch Rachel had a matzevah erected at the site according to Genesis 35:20 ; [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] the site was also mentioned in ...
Beit Sahour or Beit Sahur (Arabic: بيت ساحور, romanized: Bayt Sāḥūr ⓘ; Palestine grid 170/123) is a Palestinian town east of Bethlehem, in the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine. The city is under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority.
OpEd: I, for one, have come to deplore what the State of Israel is doing to the Palestinian people and with our money, at the behest of our government
Bethlehem: The location of the Church of the Nativity in Manger Square, where Jesus was born. Capernaum: The town, bordering the Sea of Galilee, is cited in the Gospel of Luke where it was reported to have been the home of the apostles Simon Peter, Andrew, James and John, as well as the tax collector Matthew.