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Bet Gamal is a Salesian estate situated in an agricultural region between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, near the regional town of Beit Shemesh. The name means The House of Gamaliel, the Jewish doctor of the law who was the teacher of Saint Paul.
Legend has it that Stephen, the student Rabbi Gamliel and the first Christian martyr was buried. The Salesians discovered the remains of a tomb (attributed to Stephen) in 1916, and since then the site has been venerated.
Bet Gamal was awarded the Cross of Saint George by the British Mandate Authority as the First Agricultural School of Palestine, for the modernity of the techniques and the quality of their products, among them olive oil and wine.
A few Salesians guard the shrine of Saint Stephen and the tomb of Simon Srugi.
