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    Beit Shemesh (Hebrew: בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ [bet ʃemeʃ]) is a city located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District...
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    Tel Beit Shemesh is a small archaeological tell northeast of the modern city of Beit Shemesh. It was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh...
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  • Bet Shemesh Hapoel Beit Shemesh F.C., Israeli football club based at Beit Shemesh Ironi Beit Shemesh F.C., Israeli football club based in Beit Shemesh Beit...
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    Beit Shemesh railway station is an Israel Railways station in Beit Shemesh, Israel, on the Tel Aviv–Lod–Jerusalem line. The station is located near the...
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    Knesset since 2019. From 2008 until 2018, he served as the mayor of Beit Shemesh. Born in Beersheba, Moshe grew up in a traditional household and studied...
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  • city in southwest Judah, remains excavated next to modern Beit Shemesh – see Tel Beit Shemesh a city in northern Israel allocated to the Tribe of Naphtali...
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    headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, his youngest son, Rabbi Buroch Shamshon, in Beit Shemesh, Israel; and his grandson Rabbi Yakov Yosef, son of eldest son Rabbi...
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  • Israeli Haredi neighborhoods Meah Shearim in Jerusalem and in Ramat Beit Shemesh. The anti-Zionist group is thought to have roughly 100 activist members...
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  • Hapoel Beit Shemesh Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל הפועל בית שמש) was an Israeli football club based at Beit Shemesh. In its prime the club played...
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    Sha'ar HaGai/Bab el-Wad and the road to Beit Shemesh. The largest towns in the Jerusalem corridor are Beit Shemesh, Mevasseret Zion, Abu Ghosh, Tzur Hadassah...
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    low plains of Judea in Israel. It serves as the main access route to Beit Shemesh and as a main north–south route in the region. Along the route are many...
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    teacher and politician. In 2018, she became the first female mayor of Beit Shemesh, and in 2019 she was named by The Jerusalem Post as one of the world's...
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    primarily concentrated in Israel, and particularly in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh. These Haredim rarely leave their homes; the married women who do come...
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    Railways' proposal. On September 13, 2003, the Tel Aviv – Beit Shemesh section and Beit Shemesh Railway Station were re-opened. In April 2005, the second...
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    rural with many farms, but the cities of Ashdod, Ashkelon, Rehovot, Beit Shemesh, and Kiryat Gat roughly surround it. The Bible assigned land in the Shfela...
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    ruins of the fortress were uncovered in 2007, near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, 30 km (20 mi) from Jerusalem. It covers nearly 2.3 ha (6 acres) and...
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    Petah Tikva Netanya Holon Bnei Brak Bat Yam Ramat Gan Ashkelon Rehovot Beit Shemesh Kfar Saba v t e This article lists the 73 localities in Israel that the...
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  • secular Jews on the other side had been ongoing for several years in Beit Shemesh, occasionally leading to isolated incidents of violence and demonstrations...
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    Jerusalem (redirect from Beit al-Quds)
    Railways operated train services to Malha train station from Tel Aviv via Beit Shemesh, but this service was discontinued in 2020. Begin Expressway is one of...
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    beth midrash, having a presence in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim and in Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet. The group has stated that it does not keep an official count of...
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  • Ironi Beit Shemesh (Hebrew: עירוני בית שמש) is an Israeli football club based in Beit Shemesh. The club is currently in Liga Bet South B division. The...
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    parties; and street signs requesting that women avoid certain pavements in Beit Shemesh have been repeatedly removed by the municipality. Since 1973, buses catering...
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    Arabic (grid position 147124 PAL). The site is located on the south of Beit Shemesh, near Bayt Nattif, and is now a National Park. The Park spans over an...
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    camel" is a Catholic monastery run by Salesian priests and brothers near Beit Shemesh, Israel. The Christian tradition identifies the site with the Roman-...
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  • Adam Edelman (category People from Beit Shemesh)
    Adam Jeremy "A. J." Edelman OLY (Hebrew: אדם ג'רמי אדלמן; born March 14, 1991) is an American-born Israeli sliding sports athlete. He is an eight-time...
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    Sderot, Beit She'an, Yokneam Illit, Or Yehuda and Migdal HaEmek all originating as ma'abarot. The first development town was Beit Shemesh, founded in...
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    Judaean Mountains, between Beit Shemesh and Jerusalem. An Israel Railways line, Jaffa-Jerusalem railway, runs from Beit Shemesh along the Brook of Sorek...
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  • (15 mi) northwest of Hebron, and only a few kilometers southwest of Beit Shemesh. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council...
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  • Orthodox rabbi, director of the Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh and controversial writer Natan Spigel (1886–1942), Polish-Jewish painter...
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    high ridge that formed the western slope of a mountain, to the east of Beit Shemesh. It was formerly bordered by olive trees to the north, east, and west...
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