Berakha
Har Brakha, more commonly spelled Har Bracha is an Israeli settlement located on the southern ridge of Mount Gerizim at an elevation of 870 metres above sea level, in the West Bank's Samarian Mountains, near the Palestinian city of Nablus.Photo: יאיר דב, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 2,500 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in Samaria
- Also known as: “Bracha”, “Har Bracha”, and “Har Brakha”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Gerizim and קבר השייח‘ ר’אנם.
Mount Gerizim
Peak
Photo: יאיר דב, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Gerizim is one of two mountains near the Palestinian city of Nablus and the biblical city of Shechem, located in the north of Palestine’s West Bank.
קבר השייח‘ ר’אנם
Archaeological site
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 4.0.
קבר השייח‘ ר’אנם is an archaeological site.
Joseph Lookout Point
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: יאיר דב, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mitzpe Yosef is an Israeli outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Located on Mount Gerizim near Nablus, it falls within the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kafr Qallil and Kiryat Luza.
Kafr Qallil
Village
Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kafr Qallil is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 3,029 inhabitants in 2017.
Kiryat Luza
Village
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kiryat Luza is a village situated on Mount Gerizim near the city of Nablus in the West Bank. It is within Area B of the West Bank, and as a result is under the joint control of Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, and is the only remaining site populated wholly by Samaritans.
Burin
Village
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Burin is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 7 kilometres southwest of Nablus. The town had a population of 2,844 in 2017.
Berakha
- Categories: Israeli settlement, Nahal settlement, and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.19241° or 32° 11′ 33″ northLongitude
35.2651° or 35° 15′ 54″ eastPopulation
2,500Elevation
861 metres (2,825 feet)Open location code
8G4Q57R8+X2OpenStreetMap ID
node 768037535OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
284280Wikidata ID
Q2889503
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Satellite Map
Discover Berakha from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Berakha” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Har Bracha”
- Arabic: “هار براخا”
- Belarusian: “Гар-Браха”
- Bulgarian: “Хар Браха”
- Catalan: “Har Brachà”
- Croatian: “Har Bracha”
- Czech: “Har Bracha”
- Czech: “Har Brakha”
- Dutch: “Har Bracha”
- Dutch: “Har Brakha”
- Esperanto: “Har Brakha”
- French: “Har Bracha”
- French: “Har Brakha”
- German: “Har Brakha”
- Hausa: “Har Brakha”
- Hebrew: “ברכה”
- Hebrew: “הר ברכה”
- Hungarian: “Har Brahá”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Berkat”
- Italian: “Har Brakha”
- Japanese: “ハル・ブラチャ”
- Kurdish: “Har Brakha”
- Kurdish: “Har Braxa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Har Brakha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Har Brakha”
- Norwegian: “Har Brakha”
- Novial: “Har Berakha”
- Persian: “هار براخا”
- Polish: “Beracha”
- Polish: “Berakha”
- Romanian: “Har Bracha”
- Russian: “Хар-Браха”
- Spanish: “Har Brajá”
- Swedish: “Har Brakha”
- Turkish: “Har Berakha”
- Ukrainian: “Гар-Браха”
- Urdu: “ہار براخا”
- Volapük: “Har Bracha”
- Yiddish: “הר ברכה”
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