Identification:
Two monasteries were established by Elias in the second half of the fifth century CE. These have been identified on two opposite banks of a wadi, at Tel Mugheifir and Rujum Mugheifir, about three km southeast of Jericho. The identification is based on the sites' proximity to Jericho and their close proximity to each other. The identification was made by Féderlin, who surveyed the sites in the late nineteenth century. The remains have mostly disappeared in the course of the twentieth century.
