Articles in Palestine ( 452 )

452 Articles of interest in Palestine

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  • Gihon Spring

    The Gihon Spring (Hebrew: מעיין הגיחון‎) or Fountain of the Virgin in the Kidron Valley was the main source of water for the Pool of Siloam in the City of David, the original site of Jerusalem. One of the world's major intermittent springs—and a rel…

  • 1990 Temple Mount riots

    The 1990 Temple Mount riots, also known as Black Monday or the Al Aqsa Massacre, was an event that took place in Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem at 10:30 am on Monday, 8 October 1990 before Zuhr prayer during the third year of the First Intifada. They beg…

  • Camp 1391

    Camp 1391 is an Israel Defense Forces prison camp for "high-risk" prisoners in northern Israel, run by Unit 504 and less than an hour's drive from Tel Aviv.

  • Birzeit University

    Birzeit University (Arabic: جامعة بيرزيت‎), often abbreviated as BZU, is a non-governmental public university located in Birzeit, Palestine, near Ramallah.

  • Tomb of Absalom

    Tomb of Absalom (Hebrew: יד אבשלום‎, Transl. Yad Avshalom; literally Absalom's Shrine), also called Absalom's Pillar, is an ancient monumental rock-cut tomb with a conical roof located in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem.

  • Beit Guvrin National Park

    Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in central Israel, 13 kilometers from Kiryat Gat, encompassing the ruins of Maresha, one of the important towns of Judah during the time of the First Temple, and Beit Guvrin, an important town in …

  • Rockefeller Museum

    The Rockefeller Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum, is an archaeological museum located in East Jerusalem that houses a large collection of artifacts unearthed in the excavations conducted in Mandate Palestine, in the 1920s and 193…

  • Mehola Junction bombing

    The Mehola Junction bombing (also known as the Beit El bombing, literally, the House of God bombing) was the first suicide car bomb attack carried out by Palestinian militants and took place on 16 April 1993.

  • Jerusalem Biblical Zoo

    The Tisch Family Zoological Gardens in Jerusalem (Hebrew: גן החיות התנ"כי בירושלים על שם משפחת טיש‎, Arabic: حديقة الحيوان الكتابية في أورشليم القدسḤadīqat al-Ḥaiwān al-Kitābiyyah fī 'Urushalīm al-Quds), popularly known as the Jerusalem Biblical Z…

  • Hisham's Palace

    Hisham's Palace (Arabic: خربة المفجرKhirbat al-Mafjar or Arabic: قصر هشامQaṣr Hishām) is an important early Islamic archaeological site five km north of the town of Jericho in the West Bank. It consists of three main parts: a palace, an ornate b…

  • Valley of Josaphat

    The Valley of Josaphat (variants: Valley of Jehoshaphat and Valley of Yehoshephat) is a Biblical place mentioned by name in Joel 3:2 and Joel 3:12: "I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will…

  • Mukataa

    Mukataa (Arabic: المقاطعة‎, "District") is an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center. Mukataas were mostly built during the British Mandate as Tegart forts and were used both as British government centers and as dwellings for the Brit…

  • Gibeah

    Gibeah (/ˈɡɪbiə/; Hebrew: גבעהGiv'a) is a place name appearing in several books of the Bible. It is generally identified with a hill in Jerusalem, on the outskirts of the Pisgat Ze'ev and Shuafat neighborhoods, known as Tell el-Ful.

  • Islamic University of Gaza

    The Islamic University of Gaza (Arabic: الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة‎), also known as IUG, IU Gaza and The University of Gaza, is an independent Palestinian university established in 1978 in Gaza City, Palestinian territories. The university, according to…

  • Beth Alpha

    Beth Alpha is a sixth-century synagogue located at the foot of the northern slopes of the Gilboa mountains near Beit She'an, Israel.

  • Battle of Ajnadayn

    The Battle of Ajnadayn (Arabic: معركة أجنادين‎) was fought in July or August 634 (Jumada I or II, 13 AH), in an unknown location close to Beit Guvrin in present-day Israel; it was the first major pitched battle between the Byzantine (Roman) Empire a…

  • Siloam

    Siloam (Hebrew: Shiloah; Arabic: Silwan) is an ancient site in Jerusalem, located in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, south of the Old City. According to the Hebrew Bible, Siloam was built around the "serpent-stone", Zoheleth, where Adonij…

  • Jerusalem Governorate

    The Jerusalem Governorate (Arabic: محافظة القدسMuḥāfaẓat al-Quds; Hebrew: נפת אל קודס Nafat al-Quds) is one of the 16 Governorates of Palestine and located in the central part of the West Bank. The Governorate has two sub-districts: Jerusalem J1, …

  • Dominus Flevit Church

    Dominus Flevit is a Roman Catholic church on the Mount of Olives, opposite the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church was designed and constructed between 1953 and 1955 by the Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi and is held in trust by the Fr…

  • Zedekiah's Cave

    Zedekiah's Cave, also Solomon's Quarries, is a 5-acre (20,000 m2) underground meleke limestone quarry that runs the length of five city blocks under the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was carved over a period of several thousand yea…

  • Tomb of Lazarus (al-Eizariya)

    The Tomb of Lazarus is a traditional spot of pilgrimage located in the West Bank town of al-Eizariya, traditionally identified as the biblical village of Bethany, on the southeast slope of the Mount of Olives, some 2.4 km (1.5 miles) east of Jerusal…

  • Tel Arad

    Tel Arad (Hebrew: תל ערד‎) or "old" Arad is located west of the Dead Sea, about 10 kilometres (6 miles) west of modern Arad in an area surrounded by mountain ridges which is known as the Arad Plain. The site is divided into a lower city and an upper…

  • Shuafat

    Shu'fat (Arabic: شعفاطŠuʿafāṭ), also Shuafat and Sha'fat, is a Palestinian Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, forming part of north-eastern Jerusalem. Located on the old Jerusalem-Ramallah road about three miles north of the Old City, Shu'fat ha…

  • Great Mosque of Gaza

    The Great Mosque of Gaza (Arabic: جامع غزة الكبير, transliteration: Jāmaʿ Ghazza al-Kabīr) also known as the Great Omari Mosque (Arabic: المسجد العمري الكبير‎, transliteration: Jāmaʿ al-ʿUmarī al-Kabīr) is the largest and oldest mosque in the Gaza …

  • Jezreel (city)

    Jezreel (Hebrew: יזרעאלYizre'el, "God soweth") was an ancient Israelite city and fortress originally within the boundaries of the Tribe of Issachar, and later within the northern Kingdom of Israel. According to the Book of Kings, the royal palace …

  • Gilo

    Gilo (Hebrew: גִּלֹה) is an Israeli settlement and neighborhood in south-western East Jerusalem, with a population of 40,000, mostly Jewish inhabitants. Although it is located within the Jerusalem Municipality, it is widely considered a settlement, …

  • Dung Gate

    The Dung Gate (also known as, Hebrew: שַׁעַר הַאַשָּׁפוּת Sha'ar Ha'ashpot, Gate of Silwan, Moroccan Gate, Arabic: باب المغاربة‎) is one of the gates in the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.

  • Solomon's Stables

    Solomon's Stables (Hebrew: אורוות שלמה‎) was an underground vaulted space now used as a Muslim prayer hall, some 600 square yards (500 square metres) in area, at the bottom of stairs which lead down from the al-Aqsa Mosque, under the Temple Mount, t…