Wadi Khureitun

[citation needed] The Arabic name, Wadi Khureitun, comes from the early Christian hermit, Saint Chariton the Confessor, who founded his third lavra in this valley.

[1] A hiking path on the west of the wadi passes a number of prehistoric caves on its way south to the Chariton Monastery ruins.

The archaeological Stone Age (Mesolithic and Neolithic) site of El Khiam is located in this area.

[3] Modern Tekoa's former chief rabbi Menachem Froman's son, Tzuri, lived in a cave in the desert canyon (wadi) behind the town.

[citation needed] Two young Israeli boys from Tekoa, Koby Mandell and Yosef Ish Ran, were brutally murdered by terrorists in the wadi on May 8, 2001.