Nearby cities and towns include Beit Safafa and Jerusalem to the north, Beit Jala to the northwest, Husan to the west, al-Khadr and Artas to the southwest, and Beit Sahour to the east.

William Dalrymple reviewing the literature in 1999 tells us that J. E. Hanauer in his 1907 book Folklore of the Holy Land: Muslim, Christian and Jewish " mentioned a shrine in the village of Beit Jala, beside Bethlehem, which at the time was frequented by all three of Palestine's religious communities.

With all the greatest shrines in the Christian world to choose from, it seemed that when the local Arab Christians had a problem – an illness, or something more complicated: a husband detained in an Israeli prison camp, for example – they preferred to seek the intercession of St George in his grubby little shrine at Beit Jala rather than praying at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem or the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

An American citizen living in Israel is kidnapped at a Palestinian security checkpoint in Beit Jala.

* On 2 April 2002, Australian ISM volunteer Kate Edwards sustained severe internal injuries from rounds fired by Israeli forces during a protest in Beit Jala.

Australian ISM volunteer Kate Edwards sustained internal injuries from a bullet in Beit Jala.

The residence of the Patriarch is in the Old City of Jerusalem, near the Co-Cathedral, while the seminary, which is responsible for the liturgical education, is in Beit Jala, a town 10 km south of Jerusalem, where it has been since 1936.

Beitar Illit is connected to West Jerusalem by the Tunnels Highway, which passes directly underneath the Palestinian town of Beit Jala and allows settlers access to Israel without coming into contact with or eyesight of Palestinians.

This area includes an additional approximate of the West Bank, including territory which previously included 28 villages and areas of the Bethlehem and Beit Jala municipalities.

* 1952 Beit Jala raid

Beit Jala () is a Palestinian Christian town in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank.

Beit Jala is located 10 km south of Jerusalem, on the western side of the Hebron road, opposite Bethlehem, at altitude.

In 2007, Beit Jala had 11, 758 inhabitants, predominantly Christian Palestinians with a Muslim minority, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

As part of this relief, the MCC founded a school in Beit Jala which was still in operation as of 1979.

In 1952, following a Israel Defense Forces reprisal raid in Beit Jala in which seven civilians were killed, a complaint was lodged that Israel had violated the General Armistice agreement.

Beit Jala control was assumed by the Palestinian Authority, following the 1993 Oslo accords.

During the Second Intifada, Tanzim militants used Beit Jala as a base for launching launch sniper and mortar attacks on the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.

Gilo is located on a hilltop across from Beit Jala, partially on the lands of Beit Safafa and Sharafat.

The Israeli government built a concrete barrier and installed bulletproof windows in homes and schools facing Beit Jala.

During the intifada, Abu Zgheibreh was overseas, so Palestinian gunmen, not from Beit Jala, quickly occupied it.

Several gunmen and residents of Beit Jala were killed in the resulting firefights.

Many anusim in recent times have chosen to join the Lisbon Masorti ( Conservative ) community Beit Israel, which uses the Ashkenazi rite, rather than the older Orthodox Sephardic communities, as the latter have raised more difficulties about their religious status.

Having combined his commercial mining interests with Alfred Beit to form the De Beers Mining Corporation, Rhodes and he also wanted to control the Johannesburg gold mining industry.

It is the short form of: Beit al-Quds and comes from the verb قدس ( qádusa ), which means " to be holy ", " to be pure ".

A divider in the form of a balcony was established in the Temple in Jerusalem for the occasion of the Simchat Beit Hasho ' evah ( Water Drawing Ceremony ) on Sukkot, a time of great celebration and festivity.

The Beit Yosef is a huge commentary on the Tur in which Rabbi Karo traces the development of each law from the Talmud through later rabbinical literature ( examining thirty-two authorities, beginning with the Talmud and ending with the works of Rabbi Israel Isserlein ).

A ten volume work, five discussing Halakha at a level " midway between the two extremes: the lengthy Beit Yosef of Caro on the one hand, and on the other Caro's Shulchan Aruch together with the Mappah of Isserles, which is too brief ", that particularly stresses the customs and practices of the Jews of Eastern Europe.

Likewise as well within the Christian " Tomb of the Cocks " in Beit Jibrin, which was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 miles northwest of the city of Hebron and part of the Kingdom of Israel, " we find two spirited cocks painted in red in the spandrels with a cross just over the center of the arch ".

The bomber boarded the bus at the stop in Beit Safafa, an Arab neighborhood opposite Gilo, and almost immediately detonated the large bomb which he carried in a bag stuffed with ball bearings.

In 1895, a plan was hatched with the connivance of the Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, Johannesburg gold magnate Alfred Beit, and Sir Alfred Milner ( British High Commissioner for South Africa and Lieutenant Governor of the Cape ) to liberate Johannesburg from the control of the Transvaal government.

Ananiah, whose name means " protected by God ," was identified by the 19th century French traveler V. Guerin, author of Description de La Jude ' e, with the present-day Beit Hanina, a small village 3 miles north of Jerusalem.

Zorah is also the name of an Egyptian sun god which is in line with other sun-worshiping villages in the area, Eshtaol ( valley of fire ) and Beit Shemesh ( house of sun ).

Of the nineteen proper names that the book of Joshua gives to guide us, only Bethlehem ( Beit lahm, seven miles northwest of Nazareth ) can be identified with certainty, although the archaeological site Tel Hanaton is associated with the city Hanaton listed as the boundary with Asher.

Over the year leading up to the raid, Israeli forces and civilians had conducted many punitive expeditions, causing destruction of infrastructure and crops and many civilian casualties against Palestinian villages, with Latrun, Falameh, Rantis, Qalqiliya, Khirbet al-Deir, Khirbet Rasm Nofal, Khirbet Beit Emin, Qatanna, Wadi Fukin, Idhna, and Surif being the most notable examples.

The Beit el-Wali Temple of Ramesses II contained Statues of Khnum, Satis and Anukis, along with statues of Isis and Horus.

As well as bilateral contacts with both of their partners, the Dutch officials try to encourage trilateral meetings and induce greater contact between Ra ' anana and Beit Sahur, which are located at a short geographical distance from each other but are separated by conflict, occupation and mutual mistrust.

Baruch Spinoza adopted Spinozism, broke with Rabbinic Judaism tradition and was placed in herem by the Beit Din of Amsterdam.

It is therefore customary in certain towns including Hebron, Safed, Tiberias, Acre, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beersheva, Beit She ' an, Beit Shemesh, Gaza, Gush Halav, Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramlah and Shechem to celebrate Purim on the 14th and hold an additional megillah reading on the 15th with no blessings.

Other medical facilities in Petah Tikva are HaSharon Hospital, the Beit Rivka Geriatric Center, the Kupat Holim Medical Research Center and a private hospital, Ramat Marpeh, affiliated with Assuta Hospital.

In 1250 it was mentioned together with Beit Jenn, Jalun and other places in the neighborhood as being among the Casales belonging to the Knights of Teutonic Order.

Thanks to the Harlows ' assistance in cooperation with Masorti Olami, the Bnei Anusim of Lisbon have been able to return to the Jewish faith, and a new congregation ( Kehilat Beit Israel ) has been founded in Lisbon, namely the first non-orthodox synagogue in the history of Portugal.

Beit Shemesh (,; ; ) is a city located approximately west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District, with a population of 80, 600 in 2010.

In its early years, Beit Shemesh came to typify the " Development Town " with a largely North African immigrant population.

Also in the 1990s, a large number of Ethiopian Jews started arriving in Beit Shemesh together with affluent new immigrants from English speaking countries.