Showing posts with label shiloach. Show all posts
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Shiloach
Shiloach
Shiloach has biblical roots and is the name applied to the waters of the Gihon spring in Isaiah 8:6. The "pool of Shelah" mentioned in Nehemiah 3:15 as, "lying by the king's garden" refers to the pool formed by the overflow of water in Hezekiah's tunnel, which led from the Gihon spring to the city. Archeological researchers have shown that this pool actually antedated Hezekiah's tunnel. An older open channel, constructed during the reign of Solomon or earlier, carried water from the Gihon along the eastern slope of the city of David in order to irrigate the king's garden, in the kidron, valley. As such, it served as a landmark in Josephus' descriptions of Jerusalem during the siege by Titus, and marked the boundaries between the sections defended by John of Gischala and Simeon Bar-Giora.
Talmudic sources refer several times to Shiloach, and according to John 9:7, Jesus sent a blind man to wash his eyes in the "pool of Shiloach," and he was healed. From the Middle Ages onward, the name Shiloach referred to the village on the eastern slope of the Kidron Valley. The village was a suburb of Jerusalem, and the inhabitants worked the fields on the hill of Ophel. In 1884, Jews from Yemen established themselves in part of the village, but were forced to abandon their homes due to Arab riots in 1936. In 1967, after the Six Day War, Shiloach was incorporated into the Jerusalem municipal area.
Source: "Shiloach." Encyclopedia Judaica.
Jews in Shiloach, Jerusalem to stay!
Beit Yehonatan Residents Defiant after Eviction Plans Postponed
by Gil Ronen and Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) The Jerusalem municipality postponed its plan Monday to serve eviction notices to residents of Beit Yehonatan, the Jewish-owned building in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shiloach (Silwan). The change of plan came about after police recommended not to go ahead with the serving of the eviction notices.
The municipality's plan called for serving eviction notices to additional structures in eastern Jerusalem, which are occupied by Arabs, at the same time that the eviction notice to Beit Yehonatan is served. This, in keeping with Mayor Nir Barkat's position that if an illegal Jewish building is sealed, in accordance with State Prosecution demands, the same must apply for some 200 illegal Arab structures.
Read more and watch the video.
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How logical Jews want to live in the City of David. It's past time Israel's sworn Arab enemies are driven out and Jews invited to restore their biblical presence everywhere in the Promised Land of Israel. I was blessed to be in Jerusalem, in Shiloach, when the return began, as I wrote:
Conflict in Jerusalem
They've placed barbed wire all around their "yard," freshly tarred their roof, have an Israeli flag flying & are still clearing out all the junk the Arabs threw in there for the past 7 years. It was exciting to drive through that Palestinian village as they looked on. Earlier, being hot as usual, I started to roll down my window when they reminded me it's better to be hot than get a stone in the face!
http://www.davidbenariel.org/
by Gil Ronen and Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) The Jerusalem municipality postponed its plan Monday to serve eviction notices to residents of Beit Yehonatan, the Jewish-owned building in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shiloach (Silwan). The change of plan came about after police recommended not to go ahead with the serving of the eviction notices.
The municipality's plan called for serving eviction notices to additional structures in eastern Jerusalem, which are occupied by Arabs, at the same time that the eviction notice to Beit Yehonatan is served. This, in keeping with Mayor Nir Barkat's position that if an illegal Jewish building is sealed, in accordance with State Prosecution demands, the same must apply for some 200 illegal Arab structures.
Read more and watch the video.
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How logical Jews want to live in the City of David. It's past time Israel's sworn Arab enemies are driven out and Jews invited to restore their biblical presence everywhere in the Promised Land of Israel. I was blessed to be in Jerusalem, in Shiloach, when the return began, as I wrote:
Conflict in Jerusalem
They've placed barbed wire all around their "yard," freshly tarred their roof, have an Israeli flag flying & are still clearing out all the junk the Arabs threw in there for the past 7 years. It was exciting to drive through that Palestinian village as they looked on. Earlier, being hot as usual, I started to roll down my window when they reminded me it's better to be hot than get a stone in the face!
http://www.davidbenariel.org/
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