Beit Shemesh (Hebrew: בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ,; Arabic: بيت شيمش; Latin: Bethsames, Beth Shamesh or Bethshamesh in English translations of the Hebrew Bible) is a city located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District, with a population of 94,100 in 2013. The history of Beit Shemesh goes back to pre-biblical times.
Population: 67,100
Latitude: 31° 43' 50.59" N
Longitude: 34° 59' 34.55" E
The Gush Etzion Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית גוש עציון, Mo'atza Azorit Gush Etzion) is a regional council in the northern Judean Hills, the northern part of the southern area of the West Bank, administering the settlements in the Gush Etz…
Geula (Hebrew: גאולה lit. Redemption) is a neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem, Israel populated mainly by Haredi Jews.
Beit Guvrin (Hebrew: בֵּית גֻּבְרִין, (lit. House of Men in Aramaic) is a kibbutz in the Lakhish region, west of the ancient city of Beit Guvrin, for which it is named. It is administered by the Yoav Regional Council.
Azekah was a town in the Shephelah guarding the upper reaches of the Valley of Elah, about 26 km (16 mi) northwest of Hebron. It has been identified with biblical Azeka. The tell is pear shaped with the tip pointing northward.
Zion Square (Hebrew: כיכר ציון, Kikar Tziyon) is a public square in West Jerusalem, located at the intersection of Jaffa Road, Ben Yehuda Street, Herbert Samuel Street, and Yoel Moshe Salomon Street. It is one of the vertices of the Downtown Triang…
Ramot (Hebrew: רָמוֹת, lit. Heights), also known as Ramot Alon (Hebrew: רמות אלון), is a large neighborhood in a northern part of East Jerusalem. Ramot is one of Jerusalem's Ring Neighborhoods. The land was annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War, …
Mercaz HaRav Kook (Hebrew: מרכז הרב קוק) (lit. "The Rav Kook Center") is a national-religious yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. It has become the most prominent religious-Zionist yeshiva in the world and syn…
Har Adar (Hebrew: הַר אֲדָר) is an Israeli settlement and local council in the Seam Zone and the Maccabim sub-region of the West Bank. Har Adar was founded in 1982 and has a population of approximately 4,000. It is located near Abu Ghosh and the Gre…
The Chapel of Saint Helena is a 12th-century Armenian church in the lower level of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
The Bareket Observatory (IAU code B35 ; 35.0317°N Parallax sinφ 0.84991 cosφ +0.52524) is an astronomical educational observatory owned and operated by the Bareket family.
al-Walaja or Al Walaja (Arabic: الولجة) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, four kilometers northwest of Bethlehem City. It is an enclave in the Seam Zone, near the Green Line. al-Walaja is partly under the jurisdiction of the Bethlehem Gove…
Yalo (Arabic: يالو, also transliterated Yalu) was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 kilometres southeast of Ramla. Identified by Edward Robinson as the ancient Canaanite and Israelite city of Aijalon, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Jordan for…
Yad Hashmona (Hebrew: יַד הַשְּׁמוֹנָה), (lit. Memorial for the Eight) is a small moshav shitufi in central Israel, located in the Judean Mountains near Jerusalem, within the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.
Tel Tzora, (Hebrew: תל צרעה), is a tell and Israeli archaeological site near the modern-day kibbutz of the same name.
Street of the Prophets (Hebrew: רחוב הנביאים, Rehov HaNevi'im) is an east-west axis road in Jerusalem beginning outside Damascus Gate and ending at Davidka Square.
Sdot Micha is an Israeli Air Force base located near Zekharia.
Schneller Orphanage, also called the Syrian Orphanage, was a German Protestant orphanage that operated in Jerusalem from 1860 to 1940. It was one of the first structures to be built outside the Old City of Jerusalem (the others are Mishkenot Sha’ana…
Ramot Polin (Hebrew: רמות פולין, lit. Poland Heights) is part of the larger neighborhood Ramot, a neighborhood in northwest East Jerusalem. It was constructed by the Kollel Polen (Poland) in stages beginning in 1972, under the auspices of the Office…