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Eshtaol (Hebrew: אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל) is a moshav in central Israel, and a biblical location mentioned in the Books of Joshua and Judges and in the first Book of Chronicles. Located 6 km (4 mi) north of Beit Shemesh , [ 2 ] it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council .
Eshtaol Forest is a forest in Israel, located north of Beit Shemesh and near Ta'oz and Neve Shalom, south of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Highway. [1] The Forest of the Martyrs lies to the east. The forest is a popular recreation area and is one of the largest forests in Israel.
The forests of contemporary Israel are mainly the result of a massive afforestation campaign by the Jewish National Fund (JNF). This article is a list of these forests . In the 19th century and up to World War I , the Ottoman Empire cleared the land of Israel of its natural reserves of pine and oak trees, in order to build railways across the ...
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Esthaol or Eshtaol, in Hebrew: אֶשְׁתָּאֹל (Eshṭa'ol), in Ancient Greek: Εσθαολ (Esthaol), is a town mentioned in the Bible. It corresponds to a locality near Sar'a , approximately 20 km west of Jerusalem .
The following is a list of moshavim (Hebrew: מושבים) in Israel, which includes those that exist today, those that have been relocated and those that have been dismantled. As of 2018 there are a total of 451 moshavim in Israel. About 7.5% of them (34 moshavim) are considered "Moshavim Shitufiim" (מושבים שיתופיים).
From biblical times the road is mentioned in 1 Samuel 6:12 as the route taken by the Philistines returning the Ark of the Covenant to the Israelites in Beth-Shemesh.. During the Roman period, the road was an important route as evidenced by milestones found near Givat Yeshayahu as part of the road from Ashkelon via Highway 35 to Beit Guvrin, northward along Highway 38, then westward via the ...
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