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Mata, Israel

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In the valley are various types of trees: Sweet and bitter almonds, olives, grapes, pomegranates, lemons, figs, walnuts, Syrian pears, carobs and hawthorns. To the south-east of the moshav is a natural spring called `Ain Jurish named after a nearby small Arab village (now abandoned) and which was
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At the foot of Ein Tannur ("Oven Spring") is an ancient tunnel dug deeply to catch the water at the source and increase its flow - a spring-flow tunnel. According to a local legend, Noah's oven was located nearby before the flood. When God destroyed the world, Noah's oven began spouting water,
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Place Names in Israel. A Compendium of Place Names in Israel compiled from various sources. Translated from Hebrew, Jerusalem 1962 (Israel Prime Minister’s Office. The Israeli Program for Scientific Translations)
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type can still be seen in the remains of the structure, believed to have been used as a church in the
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Remains of caravanserai (Khan), formerly used also as a Byzantine church, near Moshav Mata
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All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948
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consisting of several barrel-vaulted buildings, an enclosure wall and a chapel.
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is also hinted at in Ezekiel (XXXIV, 29)": I will provide for them a grove.
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Caravanserai (Khan), used also as a 6th-century Byzantine church, near Mata
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Entrance to natural spring (now dry), Ain et-Tannur, in valley below Mata
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Caravanserai near Mata also served as 6th-century Byzantine church
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Entrance to tunnel whence flowed a natural spring, now run-dry
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on land that had belonged to the depopulated Arab villages of
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stream, but today the majority of its population is secular.
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Mata is located in Jerusalem
31°43′4″N 35°3′44″E / 31.71778°N 35.06222°E / 31.71778; 35.06222
District
Jerusalem
Council
Mateh Yehuda
Affiliation
Moshavim Movement
Yemenite Jews
Hebrew
lit.
moshav
Israel
Jerusalem corridor
Beit Shemesh
Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
immigrants
Yemen
Allar
Khirbat al-Tannur
Elah Regional Council
he
Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
Hapoel HaMizrachi
Roman road
inn and livery stable
Greek
Byzantine
6th century

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