Ma’on
Ma'on is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav shitufi in the West Bank. Located in the Judean Hills south of Hebron and north of Beersheba, it falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hevron Regional Council.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 595 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in the West Bank
- Also known as: “Ma‘on”, “Ma’on, Har Hebron”, “Ma’on, Har Hevron”, and “Maon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tell Maon and Ar-Rifa’iyya.
Tell Maon
Archaeological site
Horvat Maon/H. Ma'on, Arabic: Khirbet Ma'in or Tell Máîn, i.e. 'Ma'in Ruins/Tell of Ma'in', is an archaeological site in the Hebron Hills, West Bank, rising 863 metres above sea level, where the remains of the ancient town of Ma'on have been excavated. Tell Maon is situated 3 km west of Ma’on.
Ar-Rifa’iyya
Residential area
Ar-Rifa'iyya, is a Palestinian village in the Hebron Governorate, located east of the city of Yatta and south of the city of Hebron in the West Bank, and within the lands occupied after the 1967 war. Ar-Rifa’iyya is situated 4 km north of Ma’on.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include At-Tuwani and Avigail.
At-Tuwani
Village
Photo: יורם שורק, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tawani or at-Tuwani is a Palestinian village in the south Hebron Hills of the Hebron Governorate. Many of the village's residents formerly lived in dwelling caves.
Avigail
Village
Avigayil is an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank. It lies between the settlements of Ma'on and Susya in the southern Hebron Hills. The settlement is situated east of the Israeli West Bank barrier, 4.7 km kilometers from the Green line on what is officially known as Hilltop 850.
Carmel
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carmel is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav in the south-east Mount Hebron area of the West Bank. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Har Hevron Regional Council and associates ideologically with the Amana settlement movement. Carmel is situated 2½ km northeast of Ma’on.
Ma’on
- Categories: moshav and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.41399° or 31° 24′ 50″ northLongitude
35.16286° or 35° 9′ 46″ eastPopulation
595Elevation
780 metres (2,559 feet)Open location code
8G3QC577+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 13296411230OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
282895Wikidata ID
Q2888952
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Ma’on” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماعون”
- Catalan: “Ma’on (Har Hebron)”
- Catalan: “Ma’on”
- Czech: “Ma’on”
- Czech: “Ma´on”
- Czech: “Maon”
- Dutch: “Ma’on, Har Hebron”
- French: “Ma’on”
- Hebrew: “מעון”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ma’on i Har Hebron”
- Polish: “Ma’on”
- Spanish: “Maon (moshav)”
- Spanish: “Maon”
- Turkish: “Ma’on, Har Hebron”
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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 “Ma’on”. Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 4.0.