Yuval
Yuval, also known as Kfar Yuval, is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee Panhandle between Metula and the city of Kiryat Shmona, it is at the border with Lebanon and falls under the jurisdiction of Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 634 residents
- Description: Place in Northern District, Israel
- Also known as: “Kefar-Yuval”, “Kfar Yuval”, and “Zuk Fukani”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prehistoric man museum and Tel Avel Beit Ma`akha.
Prehistoric man museum
Museum
The Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory, also known as the Prehistoric Man Museum, is a museum of prehistory in Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch, Israel. The museum showcases historical artifacts found in and around the kibbutz and houses an extensive collection of prehistoric tools and vessels, including hand axes predating human settlement in the Hulah Valley, around 780,000 BCE.
Tel Avel Beit Ma`akha
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Tel Abel Beth Maacah is a large archaeological tell with a small upper northern section and a large lower southern one, connected by a saddle. It is located on the northern border of present-day Israel, about 2 km south of the town of Metula and about 6.5 km west of Tel Dan.
Kiryat Shmona Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Chaver83, Public domain.
Kiryat Shmona Airport is a public Israeli airport located 2 km east of the northern town of Kiryat Shmona. The airport is operated by Kiryat Shmona Travellers Inc. Kiryat Shmona Airport is situated 4 km south of Yuval.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ma’ayan Baruch and Kfar Giladi.
Ma’ayan Baruch
Village
Photo: Jotpe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ma'ayan Baruch is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 893.
Kfar Giladi
Village
Photo: Avi1111, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Kfar Giladi is a kibbutz in the Galilee Panhandle of northern Israel. Located south of Metula on the Naftali Mountains above the Hula Valley and along the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council.
Ghajar
Village
Photo: Tomer chelouche, Public domain.
Ghajar, also Rhadjar, is an Alawite-Arab village on the Hasbani River, on the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights. Ghajar is situated 3½ km northeast of Yuval.
Yuval
- Categories: moshav, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.24742° or 33° 14′ 51″ northLongitude
35.59749° or 35° 35′ 51″ eastPopulation
634Elevation
268 metres (879 feet)Inception
1952Open location code
8G5Q6HWW+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 3058564253OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Yuval” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يوفال”
- Chinese: “尤瓦”
- Chinese: “尤維”
- Czech: “Juval”
- Czech: “Kfar Juval”
- Czech: “Yuval”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يوفال”
- French: “Kfar Yuval”
- French: “Yuval (Israël)”
- French: “Yuval”
- German: “Kfar Yuval”
- Hebrew: “יובל”
- Hebrew: “כפר יובל”
- Irish: “Yuval”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yuval”
- Polish: “Juval”
- Polish: “Juwal”
- Polish: “Yuval”
- Russian: “Кфар-Юваль”
- Russian: “Юваль”
- Turkish: “Yuval”
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Notable Places Nearby
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