Map showing
Bethlehem's location
A sample from the BusterSoft ™ 2003 CIA World Factbook CD
(Images on our CD are much higher resolution than shown here!)
Bethlehem, Jericho, and the entire Biblical Nations of Judea and Samaria are in the West Bank territories ceded to the Palestinians since 1994, by the Government of Israel, in a diplomatic effort to stop the Terrorist attacks still taking place in Israel.
(Although never a part of negotiated land transfers, both parties now claim Jerusalem.)