Shim’a
Shim'a, also Yonadav, is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, along the Green Line south of Livne and Teneh Omarim. Located on a hill 600 metres above sea level, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hevron Regional Council.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Eman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 886 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in the West Bank
- Also known as: “Shima”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jattir.
Jattir
Archaeological site
Photo: Shaofr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jattir is a town in Judea mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. It was known as Iethira during the 4th century CE, when it was a Christian town. Jattir is situated 4 km south of Shim’a.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khirbet Zanuta and Asa’el.
Khirbet Zanuta
Hamlet
Khirbet Zanuta was a Palestinian Bedouin village in the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank, located 20 kilometers south of Hebron. It was ethnically cleansed during the 2023 Gaza war. Khirbet Zanuta is situated 2½ km southwest of Shim’a.
Asa’el
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Asa'el, also known as Mitzpe Asa'el, is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located three kilometres south-east of Shim'a, it falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hevron Regional Council. Asa’el is situated 3½ km southeast of Shim’a.
As Simiya
Village
Khirbat al-Simia is a Palestinian village located four kilometers north-west of As-Samu.The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,705 in mid-year 2006. As Simiya is situated 4 km northeast of Shim’a.
Shim’a
- Categories: Israeli settlement, Nahal settlement, and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.3876° or 31° 23′ 15″ northLongitude
35.01331° or 35° 0′ 48″ eastPopulation
886Elevation
618 metres (2,028 feet)Open location code
8G3Q92Q7+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 1268383059OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
281827Wikidata ID
Q246963
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Shim’a” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شمعة”
- Czech: “Jonadav”
- Czech: “Shim’a”
- Czech: “Šim’a”
- Czech: “Yonadav”
- Dutch: “Shim’a”
- French: “Shim’a”
- Hebrew: “שמעה”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shim’a”
- Polish: “Szim’a”
- Polish: “Szima”
- Urdu: “شمعہ”
- Urdu: “یوناداو”
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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 “Shim’a”. Photo: Eman, CC BY-SA 3.0.