Ye'ela, in the Judean hills in Israel, unique for its dense concentration of stalactites and other cave formations.

The cave is named after the Soreq/Sorek Valley (Nahal Sorek) and after Avshalom Shoham, an Israeli soldier killed in the War of Attrition.

Avshalom Cave is situated near Hartuv, 3 km east of Bet Shemesh, Israel.

[2] The cave has been the focus of paleoclimate research, which allowed reconstruction of the region's semi-arid climate for the past 185,000 years.

[3] According to the American geologist James Aronson, the Soreq Cave is the Rosetta Stone of climate history in the Eastern Mediterranean.