| Shuyukh al-Arrub | |
| Translit Lang1: | Arabic |
| Translit Lang1 Type: | Arabic |
| Translit Lang1 Info: | شيوخ العروب |
| Type: | Municipality type D (Village council) |
| Pushpin Map: | Palestine |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Shuyukh al-Arrub within Palestine |
| Coordinates: | 31.6158°N 35.1475°W |
| Grid Name: | Palestine grid |
| Grid Position: | 163/113 |
| Subdivision Type: | State |
| Subdivision Name: | State of Palestine |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | Hebron |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Unit Pref: | dunam |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 1958 |
| Population As Of: | 2017 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Name meaning |
| Blank Info Sec1: | 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. 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 39km (24miles) long el-Arrub aqueduct built by the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate.
In AH 892 (1487 CE), Qansuh Al Yahyawi, the Mamluk viceroy of Damascus, 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 aqueduct to Jerusalem. 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.
. Leo Aryeh Mayer. Saracenic Heraldry: A Survey. 1933. Oxford University Press. Oxford.
. Edward Henry Palmer. 1881. The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
