Articles in Palestine ( 452 )

452 Articles of interest in Palestine

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  • Har Homa

    Har Homa (Hebrew: הר חומה‎, lit Wall Mountain), officially Homat Shmuel, is an Israeli settlement in southern East Jerusalem, near Beit Sahour. It is built on land annexed to the Jerusalem municipality by Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War, and consi…

  • Rawabi

    Rawabi (Arabic: روابي‎ Hebrew: רוואבי‎, meaning "The Hills") is the first planned city built for and by Palestinians. in the West Bank, and is hailed as a "flagship Palestinian enterprise." Rawabi is located near Birzeit and Ramallah. The master pla…

  • Moshe Feinstein

    Rav Moses Feinstein (Hebrew: משה פיינשטיין‎; March 3, 1895 – March 23, 1986) was a Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi, scholar, and posek (an authoritative adjudicator of questions related to Jewish law), who was world-renowned for his expertise in Halakha a…

  • Tomb of the Virgin Mary

    Church of the Sepulchre of Saint Mary, also Tomb of the Virgin Mary, is a Christian tomb in the Kidron Valley – at the foot of Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem – believed by Eastern Christians to be the burial place of Mary, the mother of Jesus .

  • Pool of Siloam

    The Pool of Siloam (Hebrew: בריכת השילוח‎, Breikhat Hashiloah) is a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David, the original site of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast.

  • Dome of the Chain

    Dome of the Chain (Arabic: قبة السلسلة‎, Qubbat as-Silsila) is a free-standing dome located adjacently east of the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem. One of the oldest structures on the Haram ash-Sharif (Temple Mount), it is not a mosque…

  • Shlomo Carlebach (musician)

    Shlomo Carlebach (Hebrew: שלמה קרליבך‎), known as Reb Shlomo to his followers (14 January 1925 – 20 October 1994), was a Jewish rabbi, religious teacher, composer, and singer who was known as "The Singing Rabbi" during his lifetime. Although his roo…

  • Qibya massacre

    The Qibya massacre, known in Israel as Operation Shoshana, and also known as the Qibya incident, was a reprisal operation that occurred in October 1953 when Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank. At least s…

  • Mount Scopus

    Mount Scopus (Hebrew הַר הַצּוֹפִים Har HaTsofim, "Mount of the Watchmen/Sentinels"; Arabic: جبل المشارفǦabal al-Mašārif, lit.

  • Gush Etzion

    Gush Etzion (Hebrew: גּוּשׁ עֶצְיוֹן, lit. Etzion Bloc) is a cluster of Jewish communities located in the Judaean Mountains directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the Judean Hills. The core group includes four Jewish agricultural villages that…

  • Jewish Quarter (Jerusalem)

    The Jewish Quarter (Hebrew: הַרֹבַע הַיְהוּדִי, HaRova HaYehudi; Arabic: حارة اليهود‎, Harat al-Yehud) is one of the four traditional quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. The 116,000 square meter area lies in the southeastern sector of the walled …

  • Battle of Jenin

    The Battle of Jenin took place in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank in April 1–11, 2002. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) entered the camp, and other areas under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, during the Second Intifada, as part o…

  • Antonia Fortress

    The Antonia Fortress was a military barracks built around 19 BC by Herod the Great in Jerusalem on the site of earlier Ptolemaic and Hasmonean strongholds, named after Herod's patron Mark Antony.

  • Yasser Arafat International Airport

    Yasser Arafat International Airport (Arabic: مطار ياسر عرفات الدوليMaṭār Yāsir 'Arafāt ad-Dawli), formerly Gaza International Airport and Dahaniya International Airport, is located in the Gaza Strip, in between Rafah and Dahaniya, close to the Egy…

  • Judaean Desert

    The Judaean Desert (Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָהMidbar Yehuda, both Desert of Judah or Judaean Desert; Arabic: صحراء يهوداSahara Yahudan) is a desert in Israel and the West Bank that lies east of Jerusalem and descends to the Dead Sea. It stretches…

  • Valley of Elah

    The Valley of Elah, Ella Valley, "the valley of the terebinth" (Hebrew: עמק האלהEmek HaElah) (Arabic Wadi es-Sunt), so called after the large and shady terebinth trees (Pistacia atlantica) which are indigenous to its parts, and best known as the p…

  • Atarot Airport

    Atarot Airport (IATA: JRS, ICAO: LLJR, OJJR), (also Kalandia Airport, Qalandia Airport, and Jerusalem Airport) is a small airport located between Jerusalem and Ramallah. When it was opened in 1920 it was the first airport in the British Mandate for …

  • Moroccan Quarter

    The Moroccan Quarter or Mughrabi Quarter (Arabic حارَة المَغارِبة Hārat al-Maghāriba, Hebrew: שכונת המוגרבים, Sh'khunat HaMughrabim) was a 770-year old neighborhood in the southeast corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, bordering on the western wall …

  • Mar Saba

    The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified, known in Arabic as Mar Saba (Arabic: دير مار سابا‎; Hebrew: מנזר מר סבא‎; Greek: Ἱερὰ Λαύρα τοῦ Ὁσίου Σάββα τοῦ Ἡγιασμένου), is a Greek Orthodox monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in Bethlehem Gove…

  • Church of All Nations

    The Church of All Nations, also known as the Church or Basilica of the Agony, is a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane. It enshrines a section of bedrock where Jesus is said to have pra…

  • Siloam tunnel

    The Siloam Tunnel (Hebrew: נִקְבַּת השילוח‎, Nikbat HaShiloah), also known as Hezekiah's Tunnel, is a tunnel that was dug underneath the City of David in Jerusalem in ancient times. Its popular name is due to the most common hypothesis of its origin…

  • Acra (fortress)

    The Acra (or Akra, Hebrew: חקרא or חקרה‎, Greek: Aκρα), was a fortified compound in Jerusalem built by Antiochus Epiphanes, ruler of the Seleucid Empire, following his sack of the city in 168 BCE. The fortress played a significant role in the events…

  • Allenby Bridge

    The Allenby Bridge (Hebrew: גשר אלנבי‎, Gesher Allenby), also known as the King Hussein Bridge (Arabic: جسر الملك حسين‎, Jisr al-Malek Hussein), is a bridge that crosses the Jordan River, and connects the West Bank with Jordan.

  • Mount Ebal

    Mount Ebal (Arabic: جبل عيبالJabal ‘Aybāl; Hebrew: הר עיבלHar ‘Eival) is one of the two mountains in the immediate vicinity of the city of Nablus in the West Bank (biblical Shechem), and forms the northern side of the valley in which Nablus is s…

  • Muslim Quarter

    The Muslim Quarter (Arabic: حارة المسلمين‎; Hebrew: הַרֹבַע הַמֻוסְלְמִי) is one of the four quarters of the ancient, walled Old City of Jerusalem. It covers 31 hectares (76 acres) of the northeastern sector of the Old City. The quarter is the large…

  • Silwan

    Silwan (Arabic: سلوان‎, Hebrew: כְּפַר הַשִּׁילוֹחַKefar ha-Shiloaḥ) has been a farming village near the natural spring outside southeast of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem since the medieval period. It lies in East Jerusalem and became an …

  • Hadassah Medical Center

    Hadassah Medical Center (Hebrew: מרכז רפואי הדסה‎) is a medical organization that operates two university hospitals at Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, Israel, as well as schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacology affiliated w…

  • Mount Gilboa

    Mount Gilboa (Hebrew: הר הגלבועHar haGilboa), sometimes called the Mountains of Gelboe, is a mountain range overlooking the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel.

  • Bethabara

    Bethabara (/bɛθˈæbərə/ beth-AB-ər-ə; בית עברה; bēth‛ăbhārāh; Βηθαβαρά; Bēthabará; "house of the ford, place of crossing") is the name used by some versions of the New Testament for the site where Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist. The name Beth…

  • Gush Katif

    Gush Katif (Hebrew: גוש קטיף‎, lit. Harvest Bloc) was a bloc of 21 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the Israeli army carried out the Cabinet's decision and forcibly removed the 8,600 residents of Gush Katif from their …

  • Gaza–Egypt border

    The Gaza—Egypt border is the 12 km long border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Along the border exists a buffer zone with the Philadelphia Route, which is about 14 km long. The main border crossing is at Rafah.

  • Judaean Mountains

    The Judaean Mountains (Hebrew: הרי יהודהHarei Yehuda, Arabic: جبال يهوداJibal Yahuda), also Judaean Hills, is a mountain range in Israel and the West Bank where Jerusalem and several other biblical cities are located. The mountains reach a heigh…

  • Tel Lachish

    Tel Lachish (Hebrew: תל לכיש‎; Greek: Λαχις; Latin: Tel Lachis), also Tell ed-Duweir, is the site of an ancient Near East city, now an archaeological site and an Israeli national park. Lachish is located in the Shephelah region of Israel between Mou…

  • Chapel of the Ascension (Jerusalem)

    The Chapel of the Ascension (Hebrew: קפלת העלייה‎, Greek: Εκκλησάκι της Αναλήψεως, Ekklisáki tis Analípseos) is a shrine located on the Mount of Olives, in the At-Tur district of Jerusalem. Part of a larger complex consisting first of a Christian ch…

  • Wadi Qelt

    Wadi Qelt (Arabic: وادي القلط‎; also: Wadi al-Qult, Wadi el-Qult, Wadi Kelt, Wadi Qilt or Wadi Qult) also Nahal Prat (Hebrew: נחל פרת‎) is a valley ("wadi"; Arabic: واديwādī) or stream ("nahal"; Hebrew: נחל‎) running west to east across the Judaea…