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Shilo (Hebrew: שִׁלֹה / שילה Šîlô) is an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank.Located 28 miles (45 km) north of Jerusalem on Route 60 and organised as a religious community settlement, it is neighboured by the Israeli settlements of Eli and Maale Levona and the Palestinian villages Sinjil, Turmus Ayya and Qaryut, and falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional ...
Muslim pilgrims to Shiloh mention a mosque called es-Sekineh where the memory of Jacob's and Joseph's deeds was revered. The earliest source is el-Harawi, who visited the country in 1173 when it was occupied by the Crusaders and wrote: "Seilun is the village of the mosque es-Sekineh where the stone of the Table is found". Yaqut (1225) and el ...
Yishuv HaDa'at (Hebrew: יִשּׁוּב הַדַּעַת, lit. 'Settlement of the Mind') is an Israeli outpost in the West Bank.Located near Shilo, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council.
In the 20th century, the village spread west and crossed the valley to the eastern hill, the site of the ancient city. [20] Before 1948, the area was known in Arabic as Wadi al-Nabah , but was renamed to Wadi al-Hilweh after the wife of the local mukhtar who was killed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War .
The Shiloh Indian National Historic Landmark is situated on a high bluff, between two ravines, overlooking the Tennessee River at the edge of the Shiloh Plateau. The village was encircled by a wooden palisade, while the village itself consisted of more than 100 wattle and daub houses, over three dozen individual house mounds, [5] and eight ...
Shiloh is currently uninhabited. It was an active community during the turn of the 19th to the 20th Century. During the beginning of the Space Age, the village was later annexed to NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Merritt Island, Florida, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, and the Canaveral National Seashore.
Alonei Shilo (Hebrew: אלוני שילה, lit. 'Shilo Oaks') is an Israeli outpost in the West Bank. [1] Located near Karnei Shomron, the outpost was established in 1999.. It was initially named Nof Kaneh (Hebrew: נוף קנה, l
Wadi Qana (Arabic: وادي قانا, romanized: wādī qānā, Hebrew: נחל קנה, romanized: Nahal Qana) [a] is a wadi with an intermittent stream meandering westwards from Huwara, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, Palestine, down to Jaljulia in Israel, from where it flows into the Yarkon River, of which it is a tributary.