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Beit Jimal

Beit Jimal or Beit Jamal is a Catholic monastery run by priests and brothers near , . The Christian tradition identifies the site with the Roman- and Byzantine-era Jewish village of Caphargamala, and believe that inside a cave in the area, there is the tomb of Saint Stephen or to have conserved his relics.
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  • Type: Monastery
  • Denomination: Catholic
  • Description: place
  • Also known as: “Beit Gemal”, “Beit Jimal Monastery”, and “Beit-Jamal”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tel Yarmut and Khirbet Qeiyafa.

Ruins
Photo: Shelly Eshkoli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tel Yarmuth or Khirbet Yarmuk is an ancient Near East archaeological site in located 25 kilometers southwest of and near modern . is situated 2 km south of Beit Jimal.

Archaeological site
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, also known as Elah Fortress and in Hebrew as Horbat Qayafa, is the site of an ancient fortress city overlooking the and dated to the first half of the 10th century BCE. is situated 3½ km southwest of Beit Jimal.

Archaeological site
Photo: עט הזמיר, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small archaeological tell northeast of the modern city of . It was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh – it then was known as Ain Shams – by Edward Robinson. is situated 3 km north of Beit Jimal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zanoah and Beit Shemesh.

Village
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is a moshav in central . Located adjacent to , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 515.

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is a city in the Shfela region of , with a population of 119,000. Excluding the , is the closest city to .

Village
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Yish'i is a moshav in central . Located near , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 920. is situated 3 km north of Beit Jimal.

Beit Jimal

Latitude
31.72527° or 31° 43′ 31″ north
Longitude
34.97605° or 34° 58′ 34″ east
Open location code
8G3PPXGG+4C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 336882522
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­monastery
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­monastery
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­catholic
Wiki­data ID
Q2776942
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Beit Jimal” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيت جمال”
  • Czech: “Klášter Bejt Džimal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيت جمال”
  • Finnish: “Beit Jimal”
  • French: “Beit Jamal”
  • French: “Kafar Gamla”
  • French: “Kfar Gamla”
  • German: “Bet Dschemal”
  • German: “Bet Dschimal”
  • Hebrew: “בית ג’ימאל”
  • Hebrew: “בית ג’מאל”
  • Hebrew: “בית ג’מל”
  • Persian: “بیت جمال”
  • Polish: “Klasztor Bajt Jimal”
  • Spanish: “Beit Jimal”
  • Turkish: “Beyt Cemal”

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