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Beit Horon (Hebrew: בית חורון) is a communal Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Bordering Route 443 between Modi'in and Jerusalem , the biblical pass of Beit Horon (Joshua 10:10), after which it is named, [ 2 ] it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council .
Upper Bethoron is first mentioned in the Book of Joshua as a city on the border between the Israelite tribes of Benjamin and Ephraim (Joshua 16:5).The borderline passed alongside the two Bethorons (Joshua 16:5; 21:22 [8]) who belonged to the latter Israelite tribe and therefore, later on, to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, while the tribe of Benjamin belonged to the Kingdom of Judah.
From biblical times the road is mentioned in 1 Samuel 6:12 as the route taken by the Philistines returning the Ark of the Covenant to the Israelites in Beth-Shemesh.. During the Roman period, the road was an important route as evidenced by milestones found near Givat Yeshayahu as part of the road from Ashkelon via Highway 35 to Beit Guvrin, northward along Highway 38, then westward via the ...
Beit HaShita (Hebrew: בֵּית הַשִּׁטָּה, lit. House of the Acacia ) is a kibbutz in northern Israel, under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council . As of 2022 it had a population of 1,275.
But Beit Sahour didn't break. We didn't pay our taxes." [20] Nasser abu Ayta, a video rental store owner, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times during the strike as complaining that Israeli forces "come in as if they own us." [14] Beit Sahour Mayor Hanna Al-Atrash claimed that the strike was "a success for us and a failure for the army." [32]
The protest highlighted the fault line in Israeli society between ultra-Orthodox Jews and other Israelis, many of whom believe that all Jewish citizens should serve in the military, especially ...
The village was established on 13 April 1938 as part of the tower and stockade settlement scheme. [2] Its founders, immigrants from Rexingen in Germany, arrived during the Fifth Aliyah fleeing from Nazi persecution.