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Bat Ayin

Bat Ayin is an Israeli settlement in in the , between and , founded in 1989 by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg, in lands that Israel confiscated from the neighbouring Palestinian villages of and .
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  • Type: Village with 1,550 residents
  • Description: Israeli settlement in Gush Etzion
  • Also known as: “Bat A’in”, “Naẖal Ẕor‘ef”, and “Zoref”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Khirbet DJumdjum and Gush Etsyon Junction.

Archaeological site
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Khirbet Jamjum is an archaeological site located in the western Hebron Hills of the modern-day . The settlement occupies the summit and southern saddle of a prominent limestone ridge.

Bus stop
Gush Etzion Junction, also known simply as Gush Junction, is a 120-dunam business, commercial and tourism center in the southern , which serves as the entry point to the bloc of settlements. is situated 3 km southeast of Bat Ayin.

School
Photo: איתמר אוחנה, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a school, which is situated 4 km east of Bat Ayin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kfar Etzion and Safa Village.

Village
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is an Israeli settlement in the , organized as a religious kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between and in the southern , established in 1927, depopulated in 1948 by Arab forces and re-established in 1967.

Village
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Khirbet Safa is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers north-west of .The village is in the Southern . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,105 in mid-year 2006.

Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a group of Israeli settlements in the between and , about 950 meters above the sea level. It has a rich history dating from the 1920s and 30s to recent times.

Bat Ayin

Latitude
31.65685° or 31° 39′ 25″ north
Longitude
35.10257° or 35° 6′ 9″ east
Population
1,550
Elevation
857 metres (2,812 feet)
Open location code
8G3QM443+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 551653074
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
282595
Wiki­data ID
Q810683
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Bat Ayin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بات عاين”
  • Catalan: “Bat Ayin”
  • Czech: “Bat Ajin”
  • Czech: “Bat Ayin”
  • Dutch: “Bat Ayin”
  • French: “Bat Ayin”
  • German: “Bat Ajin”
  • German: “Bat Ayin”
  • Hebrew: “בת עין”
  • Hebrew: “בַּת עַיִן”
  • Indonesian: “Bat ayin”
  • Indonesian: “Bat Ayin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bat Ayin”
  • Persian: “بت عین”
  • Polish: “Bat Ajin”
  • Polish: “Bat Ayin”
  • Russian: “Бат-Аин”
  • Spanish: “Bat Ayín”

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