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The article contains the following sentence:

"There are 567 immigrant settlers."

I have lived in Beit Shemesh for ten years, and I have no clue what this could be referring to.

I am removing this from Category:Wine regions. This is because it is not a region in the sense of the other ones (administrative areas with particular winemaking regulations). I thought about creating a category for villages which make wine, but these are almost infinite. Unless they have some legal significance (eg French appelations) I dont think they are important. I have put Cremisan into Category:Wineries however. Justinc 18:08, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Is the city of Ramat Bet Shemesh included into the Bet Shemesh population? They are two different areas (although close in distance)

Ramat Beit Shemesh is part of Beit Shemesh, it's population is included.

Anyone know the source for the statement:

"2005 population around 80,000"

No, but I remember reading that it is one of the fastest growing cities in Israel. Spoil29

That's true, but unfortunately, there appear to many people who exaggerate this growth. I have heard local politicians and others claim that the population has passed 75,000, but based on the official figure for the end of 2004, it is highly unlikely that the population is greater than 65,000 at this time. Shlomo

The problem may be that some people think that Bet Shemesh and Ramat Bet Shemesh are the same. Spoil29

Bet Shemesh and Ramat Bet Shemesh are the same - Ramat Bet Shemesh is a large neighborhood in Beit Shemesh.

I removed the part about 80,000 people since according to official statistics, the population was 65,500 at the end of 2005 (see http://www.cbs.gov.il/population/new_2006/table3.pdf).

Merging

I agree. They should be merged with Ramat Bet Shemesh being a link to Bet Shemesh. Happy138 20:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I second that. The city is Bet Shemesh. It has one mayor, one city hall one everything. Ramat Bet Shemesh is only a general name for the two neighborhoods, just like "Giva't Sharet" is for the second (newer) of the three hill on which Bet Shemesh is on. --Gavers23 22:32, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]