Samaritans

The Samaritans are a group of people who live in the Levant. Samaritans believe in the same one God of Judaism, but use only the Torah as text.^[1]

There are more than 800 Samaritans.^[2] Most of them live in Holon and Nablus.

Samaritans Media

Samaritans marking Passover on Mount Gerizim, West Bank - 20060418
Ruins of the Hellenistic-era Samaritan settlement on Mount Gerizim, built next to the Samaritan Temple and destroyed c. 110 BCE
Central panel of the mosaic floor from the 4th-century El-Khirbe synagogue, now displayed in the Good Samaritan Museum
Ruins of the 4th-century Samaritan synagogue at Khirbet Samara, a settlement probably abandoned after the Samaritan revolts
Mosaic from Samaritan synagogue (Israel Museum)
Samaritan worship center on Mount Gerizim. From a photo c. 1900 by the Palestine Exploration Fund
Yitzhaq ben Amram ben Shalma ben Tabia, the High Priest of the Samaritans, Nablus, c. 1920
Interior of the Synagogue of the Samaritans in Nablus, c. 1920
VOA report about Samaritan population loss from 2008