community
Holon (modern Samaritan community)
Holon, Israel · Wider Abrahamic world
32.016, 34.779
Attested. Attested. Population figures change and should be checked when published.
This photograph shows the modern city, or the Wikipedia lead subject, rather than the ancient site itself.
Holon is one of the two modern Samaritan communities, alongside Kiryat Luza on Gerizim. It grew in the 1950s under Israel's President Ben-Zvi, a scholar of the Samaritans. The ancient Samaritan diaspora in Damascus, Gaza, Cairo and Thessalonica had disappeared by the early modern period.
Source stance: neutral.
People and groups named here
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Sources
- Holon (Wikipedia, context article)
Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Samaritans (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0). Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
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