Shuyukh al-Arrub

Shuyukh al-Arrub (Arabic: شيوخ العروب) is a Palestinian village located eleven kilometers north-east of Hebron.

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 39 kilometres (24 mi) long el-Arrub aqueduct built by the Roman prefect[broken anchor] 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).

[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.