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A modern view of Salfit, Palestine, its stone houses spread across the central West Bank hills with olive terraces in the foreground

Salfit, Palestine: The Olive Oil Heartland of t...

Salfit, Palestine, seen from a neighboring hillside. Source: Wikimedia Commons, CC0. TL;DR: The name Salfit comes from a Canaanite phrase for basket of grapes, sal for basket and fit for...

Salfit, Palestine: The Olive Oil Heartland of t...

Salfit, Palestine, seen from a neighboring hillside. Source: Wikimedia Commons, CC0. TL;DR: The name Salfit comes from a Canaanite phrase for basket of grapes, sal for basket and fit for...

A woman in embroidered Palestinian dress picking grapes in a vineyard near Taybeh, Mandate Palestine, 1937

Taybeh, Palestine: The Village Behind Palestine...

Grape harvest in a vineyard near Taybeh, September 1937. Library of Congress, Matson Collection. Public domain. Taybeh, Palestine sits on a hilltop some twelve kilometers northeast of Ramallah, and it...

Taybeh, Palestine: The Village Behind Palestine...

Grape harvest in a vineyard near Taybeh, September 1937. Library of Congress, Matson Collection. Public domain. Taybeh, Palestine sits on a hilltop some twelve kilometers northeast of Ramallah, and it...

A carved stone spiral staircase descending into a bell-shaped cave at Beit Jibrin, Palestine, with a figure on the stairs for scale

Beit Jibrin, Palestine: The Ancient Caves and a...

A staircase cut into one of the bell caves at Beit Jibrin. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain. Beit Jibrin, Palestine (بيت جبرين) sits...

Beit Jibrin, Palestine: The Ancient Caves and a...

A staircase cut into one of the bell caves at Beit Jibrin. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain. Beit Jibrin, Palestine (بيت جبرين) sits...

An Israeli officer looks out from a bullet-scarred building over the road near Al-Faluja, Palestine, during the evacuation of the Faluja Pocket, 1949

Al-Faluja, Palestine: The Village Remembered fo...

The road out of Al-Faluja during the Faluja Pocket's evacuation, 1949. Photo by David Eldan. Public domain. Al-Faluja, Palestine (الفالوجة) was named for a Sufi master, Shahab al-Din al-Faluji, who...

Al-Faluja, Palestine: The Village Remembered fo...

The road out of Al-Faluja during the Faluja Pocket's evacuation, 1949. Photo by David Eldan. Public domain. Al-Faluja, Palestine (الفالوجة) was named for a Sufi master, Shahab al-Din al-Faluji, who...

1940s photograph of Al-Eizariya (Bethany), Palestine, showing the village on the Mount of Olives with a church bell tower on the ridge

Al-Eizariya, Palestine: The Biblical Village of...

Al-Eizariya, Palestine carries two names that tell two different stories about the same hillside. In Arabic, al-Eizariya (العيزرية) means "place of Lazarus," a direct reference to the man the Gospel...

Al-Eizariya, Palestine: The Biblical Village of...

Al-Eizariya, Palestine carries two names that tell two different stories about the same hillside. In Arabic, al-Eizariya (العيزرية) means "place of Lazarus," a direct reference to the man the Gospel...

1940s photograph of the hill town of Bethany (Al-Eizariya), Abu Dis's immediate neighbor on Jerusalem's eastern ridge

Abu Dis, Palestine: A Jerusalem Hill Town and I...

Abu Dis, Palestine takes its name from a puzzle no historian has fully closed. Abu Dis (أبو ديس) may come from a Roman-era village recorded as Beta Budison, or from...

Abu Dis, Palestine: A Jerusalem Hill Town and I...

Abu Dis, Palestine takes its name from a puzzle no historian has fully closed. Abu Dis (أبو ديس) may come from a Roman-era village recorded as Beta Budison, or from...