Silwan Silwan, or Kfar Shiloah, (; ) is a mostly Arab neighborhood of roughly 45,000, adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem, extending along the Kidron Valley and running alongside the eastern slopes of Jabal al-Mukaber. EtymologySiloam is an ancient Greek name derived from the more ancient HebrewShiloah, the ArabicSilwan, was derived form the Greek, Siloam. Silwan