Jabal Abū Ghunaym
Jabal Abū Ghunaym is a hill in West Bank, Palestine and has an elevation of 765 metres. Jabal Abū Ghunaym is situated nearby to the suburb Homat Shmuel, as well as near Umm Tuba.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Har Hamor Yeshiva and Tomb of Rachel.
Har Hamor Yeshiva
Synagogue
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Yeshivat Har Hamor; is a Religious Zionist yeshiva in Har Homa, Jerusalem, founded in 1997 as an offshoot of Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav. The president of the yeshiva is Rabbi Zvi Thau, and the Rosh yeshiva - head of the yeshiva - is Rabbi Amiel Sternberg.
Tomb of Rachel
Synagogue
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Rachel's Tomb is a site revered as the burial place of the Biblical matriarch Rachel. The site is also referred to as the Bilal bin Rabah mosque. The tomb is held in esteem by Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
Kathisma
Archaeological site
The Church of the Seat of Mary, Church of the Kathisma or Old Kathisma being the name mostly used in literature, was a 5th-century Byzantine church in the Holy Land, located between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, on what is today known as Hebron Road.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Homat Shmuel and Umm Tuba.
Homat Shmuel
Suburb
Har Homa, officially Homat Shmuel, is an Israeli settlement in southern East Jerusalem, near the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour. The settlement is also referred to as "Jabal Abu Ghneim", which is the Arabic name of the hill.
Umm Tuba
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Umm Tuba is a Palestinian Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem part of Sur Baher; it is northeast of Har Homa and Bethlehem, and southeast of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel.
Ramat Rahel
Village
Ramat Rachel is a kibbutz located in central Israel. An enclave within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries, near the neighborhoods Arnona and Talpiot, and overlooking Bethlehem and Rachel's Tomb, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.
Jabal Abū Ghunaym
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 765 metres
- Also known as: “Jabal Abu Ghunaym”, “Jabal Abū Ghunayyim”, and “Jebel Abū Ghunneim”
- Category: landform
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Dutch—“Jabal Abū Ghunaym” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jabal Abū Ghunaym”
- Dutch: “Jabal Abū Ghunaym”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Khirbat Za‘kūkah and Ramat Raẖel.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Khirbat Mazmūrīyah and Khirbat al Qiţţ.
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