Nabi Shu'ayb

The Station of Nabi Shuʿayb (Arabic: مقام النبي شعيب also transliterated Neby Shoaib, Nabi Shuaib, or Nebi Shu'eib, meaning "the Prophet Shuaib". Hebrew: הנביא שועיב, or יתרו), known in English as Jethro's tomb, is a religious shrine west of Tiberias, in the Lower Galilee region of Israel, containing the purported tomb of Shuayb, considered a prophet and identified with the biblical Jethro, Moses' father-in-law. The complex hosting the tomb is the most important religious site in the Druze faith. A Druze religious festival takes place in the shrine every year in April.

Shuayb was an object of traditional veneration by the Druze in Israel. The shrine figured in the Israeli-Arab war of 1948 as a place where Druze took vows (nidhr) and made ziyarat ("pilgrimages"). After the 1948 war, Israel placed the maqam (shrine) under exclusive Druze care.

The tomb of Shuaib, originally built outside the village of Hittin, has been a site of the annual Ziyarat al-Nabi Shu'ayb pilgrimage for the Druze for centuries, with its first mention in historical sources dating back to the 12th century CE. The modern structure dates to 1880.

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