Yafit
Yafit is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav shitufi in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Sartava;Sartaba and Gilgal I.
Sartava;Sartaba
Scenic viewpoint
Alexandreion, or Alexandrium, called Sartaba in the Mishna and Talmud and Qarn Sartaba in Arabic, was an ancient hilltop fortress constructed by the Hasmoneans between Scythopolis and Jerusalem on a pointy barren hill towering over the Jordan Valley from the west. Sartava;Sartaba is situated 4 km north of Yafit.
Gilgal I
Archaeological site
Gilgal I is an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, dated to the early Neolithic period. The site is located 8 mi north of ancient Jericho. Gilgal I is situated 3½ km south of Yafit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Petza’el and Fasayil.
Petza’el
Village
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Petza'el is a moshav and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the center of the Jordan Valley, 34.5 kilometers from the Green line, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council. Petza’el is situated 3½ km southwest of Yafit.
Fasayil
Village
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Fasayil or Fasa'il, ancient Phasaelis, is a Palestinian village in the northeastern West Bank, a part of the Jericho Governorate, located 14 kilometres northwest of Jericho and about 40 kilometres southeast of Nablus. Fasayil is situated 5 km southwest of Yafit.
Masua
Village
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Masua, also transliterated as Massu'a, is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav shitufi in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley, with an area of 6,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council. Masua is situated 6 km north of Yafit.
Yafit
- Type: Village with 200 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in the West Bank
- Categories: moshav, Israeli settlement, and locality
- Location: Jericho Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.06232° or 32° 3′ 44″ northLongitude
35.4743° or 35° 28′ 28″ eastPopulation
200Elevation
-230 metres (-755 feet)Open location code
8G4Q3F6F+WPOpenStreetMap ID
node 432344462OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
281316Wikidata ID
Q2888924
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Yafit” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يافيت”
- Czech: “Jafit”
- Czech: “Yafit”
- French: “Yafit”
- Hebrew: “יפית”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yafit”
- Polish: “Jafit”
- Russian: “Яфит”
- Turkish: “Yafit”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yafit”. Photo: Omer bern, CC BY-SA 4.0.