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Beit Shemesh (; officially also spelled Bet Shemesh) is a city in Israel's Jerusalem District, home, as of 2006 to 68,400 people. The modern day city was founded in 1950, although settlement has been on the site since pre-Biblical periods.
The ancient city of Beit Shemesh ("house of the sun" or "temple of the sun" in Hebrew) was named after the Canaan sun-goddess Shemesh, which was worshipped there in antiquity. The ruins of the ancient biblical city can still be seen in the tell of Beit...
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