Beit Jimal – Beit Jimal (or Beit Jamal; Hebrew: בית ג’מאל; Arabic: بيت جمال / الحكمة), Beit el Jemâl, meaning “The house of the camel”[1] is a Catholic monastery run by Salesian priests and brothers near Beit Shemesh, Israel. The Christian tradition identifies the site with the Roman- and Byzantine-era Jewish village of Caphargamala (כפר גמלא‎), and believe that a cave there is the tomb of St. Stephen or to have conserved his relics.[2] An alternative spelling and etymology for the name is therefore Beit Gemal or Beit Gamal – the House of Rabban Gamaliel the Elder.