| Beit Jala | |
| Arabic | بيت جالا |
| Government | Municipality |
| Governorate | Bethlehem |
| Population | 16,690 (2006) |
| Jurisdiction | 12,911 dunams (13. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language In the territories administrated by the Palestinian Authority, a municipality is an administrative unit of Local government similar to a city After the signing of the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian territories were divided into three areas (Area A Area B and Area C and 16 Governorates under the jurisdiction The Bethlehem Governorate ( محافظة بيت لحم) is one of 16 Governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the Palestinian Territories. A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of Area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used in various standardized versions 0 km²) |
| Head of Municipality | Raji George Jadallah Zeidan |
Beit Jala (Arabic: بيت جالا , possibly from Aramaic 'grass carpet', is a small Palestinian city in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Aramaic is a Semitic language with The Bethlehem Governorate ( محافظة بيت لحم) is one of 16 Governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the Palestinian Territories. The West Bank (الضفة الغربية, הגדה המערבית Hagadah Hamaaravit) also referred to in Israel as " Judea and Samaria It is located about 10 km south of Jerusalem, on the western side of the Hebron road, opposite Bethlehem, at about 825 meters (2,707 ft) altitude. Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the Hebron ( al-Ḫalīl or al-Khalīl, Standard Hebrew: Ḥevron Tiberian Hebrew: Ḥeḇrôn is the largest city in the West Bank, located in the south Bethlehem ( بيت لحم,, lit "House of Meat" Βηθλεέμ Bethleém בית לחם Beit Lehem, lit "House of Bread" is a Altitude is the Elevation of a point or object from a known level or datum (plural data According to 1997 statistics compiled by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Beit Jala has 12,239 inhabitants, predominantly Christian Palestinians with a Muslim minority. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS (الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني is the statistical organization and branch of the Interior Ministry The children of many Beit Jala residents have emigrated to Chile. Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the
Beit Jala is home to educational institutions run by a variety of Christian denominations. A Russian Orthodox school was established in 1870. See also Eastern Orthodox Church Structure and organization The Slavic Orthodox Church is organized in a hierarchical structure The Latin Patriarchate Seminary, which supervises religious liturgical education in the Jerusalem Patriarchate, moved to Beit Jala in 1936. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is the title given to the Latin Rite Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is a specialized and often live-in Higher education institution for the purpose of instructing students A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group according to their particular traditions The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the West Bank runs the Talitha Kumi School, which is closely linked to the German Lutheran community. Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The school runs an environmental education program and operates the only bird-ringing station in the Palestinian sector.
Beit Jala has a hospital and three societies for the disabled: the Bethelehem Arab Society, [1] Lifegate Rehabilitation [2] and House Jemima, [3] a Dutch-founded home and daycare-center for children with mental disabilities. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands
3,500 acres (14 km²) of land are planted with olives, grapes and other crops. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U The Olive is the Fruit of the Olive tree (Olea europaea and is a major component of the Agriculture and Gastronomy of many countries For the Tokyo University supercomputer see Gravity Pipe. GRAPE, or GRA phics P rogramming E nvironment is Cremisan Cellars, located in the Cremisan monastery, is an important local winemaker. The Cremisan Monastery is a Salesian Monastery on the border between Israel and the West Bank, near Beit Jala. This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. The Beit Jala skyline is dominated by six churches and two mosques. A church building is a Building or Structure whose primary purpose is to facilitate the meeting of a church. The Church of the Virgin Mary is the oldest church and the Church of Saint Nicholas is regarded as the most important. Saint Nicholas (Άγιος Νικόλαος, Agios Nikolaos, "victory of the people" is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a Christian Saint According to tradition, St. Nicholas spent four years in the Holy Land. Both of these churches are Orthodox Christian. The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian Communion in the world
On January 6, 1952 an Israeli military raid was carried out on the Palestinian town of Beit Jala. Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn The Beit Jalla reprisal raid was a seminal point in the escalation of the "Border Wars" in the Arab Israeli conflict where Israel began a series of organised military reprisal raids across the cease fire lines. Commander Hutchison of the US navy investigated the Jordanian complaint of a violation of the General Armistice agreement at Beit Jalla on behalf of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO) as Chairman of the Mixed Armistice Commission (MAC) for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan/Israel Mixed Armistice Commission (HKJIMAC). The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and its neighbors Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan UNTSO is an acronym for United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, an organization founded on 29 May 1948 for Peacekeeping in the Middle East. The Mixed Armistice Commissions (MAC An organisation for monitoring the cease fire along the lines set by the General Armistice Agreements At the closing of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War a Truce ( General Armistice Agreement) was signed between Hashemite Jordan Kingdom and Israel on the 3 April 1949 the United Nations [4]
Beit Jala is famous for its olive wood souvenirs. Other economic branches are tobacco, textiles, agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
During the al-Aqsa Intifada, Tanzim militants used Beit Jala as a base for shooting at the Jewish Settlement of Gilo, which is located on an hilltop directly across from it. Tanzim (Arabic تنظيم Organization in Arabic) is a faction of the Palestinian Fatah movement Gilo (גילֹה is a neighborhood in southern Jerusalem built on land De facto annexed to Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War.
2005 municipal election
In the 2005 municipal election, 6 seats went to the United Beit Jala list (Fatah and Palestinian People's Party), 5 seats went to Sons of the Land (PFLP and independents), one seat went to Independent Beit Jala Group and one candidate was elected as an independent. Municipal elections were held to elect members of local councils in the Palestinian Territories between December 2004 and December 2005 United Beit Jala was a joint list of Fatah and the Palestinian People's Party for the May 2005 municipal elections in Beit Jala, the West Fatah (فتح literally opening, is a reverse Acronym from the Arabic name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (حركة التحرير The Palestinian People's Party ( PPP, in Arabic حزب الشعب الفلسطيني Hizb al-Sha'b al-Filastini) founded in 1982 as the Palestinian Communist Sons of the Land was a joint list of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and independents for the May 2005 municipal elections in Beit Jala The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP) ( Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين al-Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Tahrīr The most popular candidate was Raji George Jadallah Zeidan of United Jala with 2,892 votes, followed by Nadir Antoun Issa Abu Amsha of Sons of the Land with 1764 votes. [5]
References
- ^ Bethlehem Arab Society
- ^ Lifegate Rehabilitation
- ^ House Jemima
- ^ E H Hutchison “Violent Truce”A Military Observer Looks at the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1951 1955
- ^ Municipal Election results
External links
- Official Site of Beit Jala City
- Talitha Kumi School
- House Jemima
- Lifegate Rehabilitation
- Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation
- Nativity Hotel in Beit Jala
- Arja Textile
- Al-Harah Theater the only theater in the Bethlehem area.
- E H Hutchison “Violent Truce”A Military Observer Looks at the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1951 1955
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