Shalem is an alternative name for
Shalim
Shalim (Šalām, Shalem, ) is a god in Canaanite religion, mentioned in inscriptions found in Ugarit (now Ras Shamra, Syria).Golan, 2003, p. 82. "The name of the Canaanite deity of the setting sun Salim, or Salem, ..The names Shahar_(god).ht ...
, the Canaanite god of dusk, and the
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...
name for the Biblical town of
Salem (). It may also refer to:
Places
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Kfar Shalem, a neighbourhood in Tel Aviv
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Hapoel Kfar Shalem F.C., a football club based in Kfar Shalem
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Mitzpe Shalem
Mitzpe Shalem () is an Israeli settlement and former kibbutz in the eastern West Bank. Located near Highway 90 about north of Ein Gedi and north of the Green Line about 1 km from the western shores of the Dead Sea, it is the southernmost ...
, a settlement and former kibbutz in the West Bank
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Shalem Center
The Shalem Center (, ''Merkaz Shalem'') was a Jerusalem research institute that supported academic work in the fields of philosophy, political theory, Jewish and Zionist history, Bible and Talmud, Middle East Studies, archaeology, economics, and ...
, a former research institute in Jerusalem
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Shalem College
Shalem College (, ''HaMerkaz HaAkademi Shalem'') is a private liberal arts college in Jerusalem, Israel providing undergraduate education and founded with the aim of producing "broadly educated citizens for lives of influence and service." It is ...
, an arts college in Jerusalem
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Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, a Christian educational organization in Washington D.C.
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Tzur Shalem Tzur Shalem is an Israeli outpost attached to the Israeli settlement of Karmei Tzur in The Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank. The outpost is under the jurisdiction of the Gush Etzion Regional Council. The international community conside ...
, Israeli outpost in the West Bank
People
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Avinoam Shalem
Avinoam Shalem (Hebrew: אבינועם שלם; born 1959) is the Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam at Columbia University. He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 2020 to 2021.
Biography
Shalem was born in ...
(born 1959), Israeli art historian
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Natan Shalem (1897–1959), Israeli geographer and geologist
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Yehoshua Shalem (born 1944), Israeli tennis player
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