Beit Horon
Beit Horon is a communal Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Bordering Route 443 between Modi'in and Jerusalem, the biblical pass of Beit Horon, after which it is named, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council.Places of Interest
Highlights include Khirbet Beit Sila.
Khirbet Beit Sila
Archaeological site
Khirbet Beit Sila is an archaeological site located south of Beitunia, in the central West Bank. It is situated in the historical Benjamin area, above Nahal Modi'im and beside a secondary route that led from the Shephelah up to Jerusalem. Khirbet Beit Sila is situated 2½ km east of Beit Horon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include At-Tira and Beit Ur al-Fauqa.
At-Tira
Village
At-Tira is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank.
Beit Ur al-Fauqa
Village
Beit Duqqu
Village
Beit Duqqu is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate, located northwest of Jerusalem in the central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,754 in 2017.
Beit Horon
- Type: Village with 1,120 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in the West Bank
- Categories: community settlement, Israeli settlement, residential area, and locality
- Location: Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.87737° or 31° 52′ 39″ north
Longitude
35.12722° or 35° 7′ 38″ east
Population
1,120
Elevation
625 metres (2,051 feet)
Open location code
8G3QV4GG+WV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Beit Horon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيت حورن”
- Arabic: “بيت حورون”
- Catalan: “Bethoron”
- Cebuano: “Beit Horon”
- Chinese: “拜特和崙”
- Czech: “Beit Horon”
- Czech: “Bejt Choron”
- French: “Beit Horon”
- Hebrew: “בֵּית חוֹרוֹן”
- Hebrew: “בית חורון” (historical)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beit Horon”
- Persian: “بیت حورون”
- Polish: “Beit Horon”
- Polish: “Bet Choron”
- Polish: “Bet Horon”
- Russian: “Бейт-Хорон (поселение)”
- Russian: “Бейт-Хорон”
- Swedish: “Beit Horon”
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