Shuyukh al-Arrub
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| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | شيوخ العروب |
  Shuyukh al-Arrub Location of Shuyukh al-Arrub within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°36′57″N 35°08′51″E / 31.61583°N 35.14750°E / 31.61583; 35.14750 | |
| Palestine grid | 163/113 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Hebron |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Population
(2017)[1]
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| • Total | 1,958 |
| Name meaning | Birket el Arrub, the well of Arrub[2] |
Shuyukh al-Arrub (Arabic: شيوخ العروب) is a Palestinian village located eleven kilometers north-east of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,958 inhabitants in 2017.[1] The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.[3]
Shuyukh al-Arrub is located 11 km north of Hebron City. It is bordered by Kuziba and Irqan Turad to the east, Beit Fajjar to the north, Halhul and Sa'ir to the south and Al 'Arrub Camp to the west.[4]
See Solomon's Pools for the 39 kilometres (24 mi) long el-Arrub aqueduct built by the Roman prefect[broken anchor] Pontius Pilate.
InAH 892 (1487 CE), Qansuh Al Yahyawi, the Mamluk viceroyofDamascus, renewed the water supply from Ain al-Arrub (Arrub Spring).[5]
In the 1850s, people from Ash Shuyukh settled the area.[6]
In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Birket el 'Arrub as: "one of the main reservoirs supplying the aqueducttoJerusalem. There are two channels, one from Birket Kufin, one from 'Ain Kueiziba, which join [here]."[7]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Shuyukh al-Arrub came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 242 inhabitants in Shuyukh Arrub.[8]
Since the 1967 Six Day War, Shuyukh al-Arrub has been under Israeli occupation.
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