Nahal Telem
31°34′18″N 35°1′53″E / 31.57167°N 35.03139°E
| Nachal Telem | |
|---|---|
 The caves of Nachal Telem | |
| Location | |
| Country | West Bank, State of Palestine |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | at the village of Telem, West Bank |
| Mouth | |
• location | Nachal Guvrin, West Bank |
The Nahal Telem is a wadi located in the West Bank begins in the western part of the Judaean Mountains north of its namesake, the Israeli settlement of Telem, and goes westwards. The wadi contains the El Kof Nature Reserve and the Tor-Safa Cave which is the largest of the caves in the western slopes of the Judaean Mountains. The El Kof Nature Reserve was planted in 1927 during the British mandate by the Department of Government plantings, originally on an area of 1,000 dunams. In 1966 the Forestry Department of the Jordanian government expanded the forest as it extended it with additional 900 dunams.[1]
The official Israeli name of the wadi is the Nahal Natziv, after Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, often known as the Netziv, but this name is not used in practice.
On December 28, 2007 a terrorist attack was carried out in Nahal Telem in which two Jewish tourists were killed.[2]
References
- ^ Mount Hebron: A Survey of landscape and itineraries - Menahem Markus, David Amit, page 239
- ^ 2 Israeli Settlers Killed - New York Times