Qubur Bani Isra'il

Qubur Bani Isra'il

Shown within the West Bank
Location	West Bank
Coordinates	31°50′32″N 35°16′08″E / 31.842250°N 35.268950°E
Type	tomb
History
Material	local stone

Qubur Bani Isra'il (trans. "Tombs of the Children of Israel"), are huge stone structures which rise from a rocky plateau overlooking Wadi Qelt, about 3.5 miles northeast of Jerusalem along Highway 437 near Pisgat Zeev.

Dimensions

The megaliths, measuring 50 by 10 feet (15.2 by 3.0 m), form rectangular walled structures, two or three rows of whose gigantic, rough-hewn stones are still carefully in place. There were originally five, but one was demolished to make way for the Ramallah bypass road erected in the late 1980s.^[1]

References

1. Etshalom , Yitzchak. Kever Rachel: The "Northern Theory"

External links

• Burrows, Director (1932). "From Director Burrows' Reports on the Work of the School in Jerusalem". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (American Schools of Oriental Research) (46): 9–13. doi:10.2307/1354879. ISSN 2161-8062. JSTOR 1354879 – via JSTOR. (registration required (help)).
• The Muslim Conquest of Syria, David Nicolle
• Rachel weeping: Jews, Christians, and Muslims at the Fortress Tomb, By Fred Strickert