Wādī al Shakā’ir

Wādī al Shakā’ir is a wadi in , . Wādī al Shakā’ir is situated nearby to the village , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Khirbet Abu ed-Dinein and Khirbet Badd Isa.

Ruins
Khirbet Abu ad-Danin, Horvat Abu a-Danin or Kh. Abu ed-Dinein is an archaeological site located in the central , just south of . The site represents a rural Jewish village from the late Second Temple period, founded in the 2nd century BCE and reaching its peak during the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods.

Ruins
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Khirbet Bad 'Issa or Khirbet Bad-'Issa is an archaeological site located in the central , within . Archaeological evidence suggests that the site was founded in the 3rd century BCE, during the Hellenistic period, as a seasonal agricultural settlement.

Synagogue
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Maarava Machon Rubin is an Orthodox yeshiva high school located in the Israeli settlement of Matityahu, near Modi'in, midway between and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lapid and Kfar HaOranim.

Village
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is an Israeli community settlement. Located in the Latrun salient of the Green Line near , it falls under the jurisdiction of . In 2023 it had a population of 2,047.

Village
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, also known as Menora or Giv'at Ehud, is an Israeli settlement in the . Contiguous with Lapid and located near to the major city of Modi'in, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of .

Village
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is an Israeli settlement organised as a moshav. It was established in 1977 in an area that had become a no-man's land between and -controlled at the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, before becoming part of the Israeli-occupied territories in the 1967 Six-Day War.

Wādī al Shakā’ir

Latitude
31.91667° or 31° 55′ north
Longitude
35.03333° or 35° 2′ east
Elevation
255 metres (837 feet)
Open location code
8G3QW28M+M8
Geo­Names ID
281931
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