Bethlehem of Galilee By Aviram Oshri at BAR.
Opening Paragraph: Bethlehem of Galilee is located on the western fringes of the Jezreel Valley, on the southern border of the low chalk hills of Alonim-Shefar‘am, which rise about 120 m above sea level. An Arab village (Beit Laḥm) was situated on a low mound on the site, alongside a Templer settlement that was founded at the beginning of the twentieth century and abandoned in 1948. Some of the buildings of the present-day moshav of Beit Leḥem ha-Glilit, including the school, were erected in the center of the mound.
