Ein 'Arik is a Palestinian

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 town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate

Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate

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, located 7 kilometers west of Ramallah

Ramallah

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 in the northern West Bank

West Bank

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. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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 (PCBS), the town had a population of 1,567 inhabitants in 2007. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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There are two churches located in the village, one Orthodox Christian and the other one is Roman Catholic, and one mosque that has the tallest minaret in all of Palestine. Couvent Saint-Etienne. Half of its inhabitants are Muslims, and the other half are Palestinian Christians

Palestinian Christians

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The head of the town's council is a Christian.