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    Silwan or Siloam (Arabic: سلوان, romanized: Silwan; Greek: Σιλωάμ, romanized: Siloam; Hebrew: כְּפַר הַשִּׁילוֹחַ, romanized: Kfar ha-Shiloaḥ) is a predominantly...
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    The Silwan necropolis is the remains of a rock-cut cemetery assumed to have been used by the highest-ranking officials residing in Jerusalem. Its tombs...
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    Wadi Hilweh is a neighborhood in the Palestinian Arab village of Silwan, intertwined with an Israeli settlement called the City of David. The neighborhood...
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  • Kfar Silwan (Arabic: كفر سلوان, also spelled Kfar Selouane, Kfarselwan or Kfar Silwen) is a municipality in the Baabda District of Mount Lebanon Governorate...
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    groves that once covered its slopes. The southern part of the mount was the Silwan necropolis, attributed to the elite of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. The...
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    located in Wadi Hilweh, an extension of the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem, intertwined with an Israeli settlement. The name "City...
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    The Siloam inscription, Silwan inscription or Shiloah inscription (Hebrew: כתובת השילוח), known as KAI 189, is a Hebrew inscription found in the Siloam...
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    The Monolith of Silwan, also known as the Tomb of Pharaoh's Daughter, is a cuboid rock-cut tomb located in the Kidron Valley, in Silwan, Jerusalem dating...
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    Kingdom of Judah. These include the Silwan necropolis, Ketef Hinnom, the Garden Tomb, and St. Etienne. The Silwan necropolis, the most important cemetery...
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    well-watered area and neighbourhood located to the south of Wadi Hilweh in the Silwan area of East Jerusalem, and currently consists of more than 100 Palestinian...
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  • Thumbnail for Old Yemenite Synagogue (Silwan)
    Synagogue"), is a Jewish congregation and restored synagogue, located in the Silwan district of East Jerusalem. The synagogue was constructed in the nineteenth...
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    Pool of Siloam (category Silwan)
    בְּרֵכַת הַשִּׁילוֹחַ, Bərēḵat haŠīlōaḥ, Arabic: بِرْكَة سِلْوَان‎ Birka Silwān) refers to a number of rock-cut pools, located outside the walls of the...
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    complete survey of the Silwan necropolis rock-cut tombs of the Jerusalem First Temple period necropolis atop which the village of Silwan was built. Headed...
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  • Look up Siloam or Silwan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Siloam most often refers to the ancient site of Silwan in Jerusalem. Articles directly related...
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    were: Damascus Gate; Golden Gate; Herod's Gate; Jaffa Gate; Lions' Gate; Silwan Gate (also known as Mughrabi Gate, and now as Dung Gate); and Zion Gate...
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    holds Jerusalem's most important cemetery from the First Temple period, the Silwan necropolis, assumed to have been used by the highest-ranking officials residing...
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    (also called Wadi Hilwa Square) is an archaeological excavation located in Silwan in advance of building project commissioned by the El'ad Association. It...
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  • functions in Fatah's armed units in Lebanon and Jordan. Oudeh was born in Silwan, East Jerusalem, in 1937. He was a teacher by training. He taught physics...
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  • community in the City of David, which is also part of the neighborhood of Silwan. The foundation works to achieve its goals by tourism, education, archaeological...
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  • Royal Steward inscription (category Silwan)
    KAI 191, is an important Proto-Hebrew inscription found in the village of Silwan outside Jerusalem in 1870. After passing through various hands, the inscription...
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  • as being different people. A royal steward's rock-cut tomb discovered in Silwan is conjectured to be Shebna's, although only the term "-yahu" remains legible...
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  • of David - an alternative name for the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood in the Silwan district City of David Foundation - an Israeli settler association which...
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  • different shapes. The league has been held uninterrupted since 2008. In 1977, Silwan won a five-team league on 28 points ahead of Al-Arabi Beit Safafa, YMCA...
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    the City of David archaeological site in the 60% Arab neighbourhood of Silwan (adjacent to the Old City), and the Museum of Tolerance on Mamilla Cemetery...
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    A’qab, Ras Al-Amud, Sharafat, Sheikh Jarrah, Shu’fat, Shu'fat Refugee Camp, Silwan, Sur Baher, Umm Tuba, Wadi Al-Joz Jerusalem J2: Abu Dis, Al-Eizariya, Al-Jib...
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    Gate (Hebrew: שער האשפות Sha'ar Ha'ashpot), also known in Arabic as the Silwan Gate and Mughrabi Gate (Arabic: باب المغاربة, romanized: Bab al-Maghariba...
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  • Village Kfar Hashiloach (Hebrew: כפר השילוח) in the Jerusalem district of Silwan, and built the Old Yemenite Synagogue. Before World War I, there was another...
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    Old City walls, in order to exclude the contiguous Arab neighbourhood of Silwan, Ras al-Amud and At-Tur and Abu Tor. These boundaries defined the municipality...
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    17: IAA, Wikimedia commons Silwan & Ath Thuri (Fact Sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) Ath Thuri and Silwan aerial photo, ARIJ Locality...
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    urban neighborhoods where Jews and Arabs live together: the Muslim Quarter, Silwan, Abu Tor, Sheikh Jarrah and Shimon HaTzadik. Under the Oslo Accords, the...
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