Homat Shmuel

Har Homa, officially Homat Shmuel, is an Israeli settlement in southern , near the Palestinian city of . The settlement is also referred to as "Jabal Abu Ghneim", which is the Arabic name of the hill.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem, occupied West Bank
  • Also known as: “Har Homa” and “Homat Smuel”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Har Hamor Yeshiva and Rachel’s Tomb.

Synagogue
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Yeshivat Har Hamor; is a Religious Zionist yeshiva in Har Homa, , founded in 1997 as an offshoot of Yeshivat . The president of the yeshiva is Rabbi Zvi Thau, and the Rosh yeshiva - head of the yeshiva - is Rabbi Amiel Sternberg.

Place of worship
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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.

Archaeological site
The Church of the Seat of Mary, Church of the or Old being the name mostly used in literature, was a 5th-century Byzantine church in the , located between and in , on what is today known as Hebron Road.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Umm Tuba and Ramat Rahel.

Suburb
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is a Palestinian Arab neighborhood in part of ; it is northeast of Har Homa and , and southeast of Kibbutz .

Village
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Ramat Rachel is a kibbutz located in central . An enclave within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries, near the neighborhoods and , and overlooking and , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.

Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also Tsur Baher, is a Palestinian neighborhood on the southeastern outskirts of . It is located east of and northeast of Har Homa. In 2006, had a population of 15,000.

Homat Shmuel

Latitude
31.72573° or 31° 43′ 33″ north
Longitude
35.22128° or 35° 13′ 17″ east
Open location code
8G3QP6GC+7G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 520695908
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q1584365
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Satellite Map

Discover Homat Shmuel from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Homat Shmuel” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حومات شموئيل”
  • Arabic: “هارحوما”
  • Czech: “Har Choma”
  • Dutch: “Har Homa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هارحوما”
  • Esperanto: “Har Ĥoma”
  • Finnish: “Homat Shmuel”
  • French: “Har ‘Homa”
  • French: “Har ’Homa”
  • French: “Har Homa”
  • German: “Har Choma”
  • German: “Har Homa”
  • Hebrew: “הר חומה”
  • Hebrew: “חומת שמואל”
  • Japanese: “ハル・ホマ”
  • Persian: “هار حوما”
  • Russian: “Хар-Хома”
  • Turkish: “Har Homa”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Jabal Abū Ghunaym and חב’ד.

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