A 36-year-old Israeli was killed when gunmen opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank.

He was a British worker for UNRWA in Jenin.

The association of Jenin with the biblical city of Ein-Ganim was recognized by Ishtori Haparchi.

Four terracotta lamps of Phoenician origin dated to the 8th century BCE were discovered in Ain Jenin by archaeologist G. I. Harding, and are interpreted as attesting to some form of contact and exchange between the residents of Jenin at that time and those of Phoenicia. During the Roman era, Jenin was called " Ginae.

" In the days of Saladin Al Ayubi, around 1187, there was a castle in the Jenin vicinity.

In the mid-18th century, Jenin was designated the administrative capital of a district that included Lajjun, Ajlun and Jabal Nablus.

Tawfiq Jarrar was accorded the unique title, " son of the great " ( salil al-akabir ) in Haifa, in recognition of his family's status and his entrepreneurial efforts. During the Ottoman era, Jenin was plagued by local warfare between members of the same clan.

Jenin was a major player in the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, prompted by the death of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam in a fire-fight with British colonial police at the nearby town of Ya ' bad.

Jenin was used by Fawzi al-Qawuqji's Arab Liberation Army as a base.

On August 25, 1938, the day after the British Assistant District Commissioner was assassinated in his Jenin office, a large British force with explosives entered the town.

The Jenin refugee camp was founded in 1953 by Jordan to house displaced Palestinians who fled or were expelled during the 1948 War.

In 1967, on the first day of the Six-Day War, Jenin was captured by the Israel Defense Forces.

Over the following years, Jenin was subject to extended curfews and targeted killings.

Director of the Freedom Theater in Jenin, Juliano Mer-Khamis, was killed by masked gunmen in the city in April 2011.

Jenin municipality was established in 1886 under the Ottoman rule with no more than 80 voters and elections were made every 4 years until 1982 when the Israeli government took control over the municipality until 1995.

Jenin was one of several Palestinian cities where Hamas showed a dramatic growth in electoral support.

* On November 22, 2002 Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish ISM volunteer was shot and injured by IDF in Jenin minutes before UNRWA relief works project manager, Briton Iain Hook was killed nearby.

* On September 6, 2007, ISM activist Akram Ibrahim Abu Sba was killed by members of Islamic Jihad in northern Jenin.

Irish ISM volunteer and human rights activist Caoimhe Butterly was shot in the thigh by an Israeli soldier during the Battle of Jenin.

Jenin overlooks both the Jordan Valley to the east and the Jezreel Valley ( known in Arabic as " Marj Ibn Amer ") to the north, and from the south it connects to the Samaria mountains.

* Zakaria Zubeidi: local commander in Jenin, known for his relationship with Israeli far left activist Tali Fahima.

The area is further divided into 8 military administrative regions: Menashe ( Jenin area ), HaBik ' a ( Jordan Valley ), Shomron ( Shechem area, known in Arabic as Nablus ), Efrayim ( Tulkarm area ), Binyamin ( Ramallah / al-Bireh area ), Maccabim ( Maccabim area ), Etzion ( Bethlehem area ) and Yehuda ( Hebron area ).

Tawalbe was involved in many attacks against Israelis but he was best known for being the leader of the Palestinian militants in Jenin during the Battle of Jenin, part of Israel's 2002 Operation Defensive Shield.

Other top Islamic Jihad targets in Jenin included Thabet Mardawi, behind a March 20 suicide bomb that killed seven Israelis on a bus, and Ali Suleiman al-Saadi, known as Safouri, who had planned a November shooting that killed two Israelis.

The Battle of Megiddo () also known in Turkish as the Nablus Hezimeti (" Rout of Nablus "), the Nablus Yarması (" Breakthrough at Nablus ") was fought between 19 and 25 September 1918, on the Plain of Sharon, in front of Tulkarm, Tabsor and Arara in the Judean Hills as well as on the Esdralon Plain at Nazareth, Afulah, Beisan, Jenin and Samakh.

The town was later known as Beth-Hagan and was probably located roughly on the spot of the modern town of Jenin.

The arabicized name " Jenin " ultimately derives from this ancient name.

She does not deny that she later met Zubeidi in Jenin a number of times, but she denies any involvement in armed activities.

The village was situated west of Jenin, on the top of a small circular plateau that extended from the northern slope of a mountain ( Jabal Faqqu ' a ).

** Arraba, Jenin, a Palestinian village in the West Bank

Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was born in 1941 in the Palestinian village of Silat al-Harithiya, about eight kilometers northwest of the city of Jenin in the West Bank, then administered under the British Mandate for Palestine, which covered the two sectors of Palestine and Transjordan.

After spending a year in Adir, Azzam returned to the West Bank, where he taught at a school in the village of Burqin, about four kilometers west of Jenin.

* Sir, Jenin, Palestinian village in Jenin district

* Arana is one of the possible spellings for Arranah village in Jenin Governorate, Palestinian National Authority.

Born to a Christian peasant family, in Zababdeh, near Jenin, he attended primary school in his village ( 1956 – 61 ) before joining the Minor Seminary of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Beit-Jala, near Bethlehem ( 1961 – 65 ).

It has been identified with Tel Dothan located ten kilometers ( driving distance ) southwest of Jenin, near Dotan Junction of Israel Route 60.

* In March 2008, Israel's Interior Ministry granted a gay Palestinian from Jenin a rare residency permit to live with his partner of 8 years in Tel Aviv after he said his sexuality put his life in danger in the West Bank.

Throughout November and December 1995, Arafat toured dozens of Palestinian cities and towns that were evacuated by Israeli forces including Jenin, Ramallah, al-Bireh, Nablus, Qalqilyah and Tulkarm, declaring them " liberated ".

The word "' ayn " means " water spring " in Arabic and the word " Jenin " might be related to the Arabic word جن ّ ة ( janna ), which means " garden ".

On November 15, following Arafat's death, Israeli forces launched an incursion in Jenin to kill him, but he evaded them ; in the raid, nine Palestinians were killed, including four civilians and his deputy, " Alaa ".

Fergusson was appointed as the commander of a police school that was supposed to be created in Jenin, but soon he was appointed by Gray to be " Special assistant to the commandant of police ".