Yibna
Yibna, or Tel Yavne, is an archaeological site and depopulated Palestinian town. The ruins are located southeast of the modern Israeli city of Yavne. The town had a population of 5,420 in 1948, located 15 kilometers southwest of Ramla.- Type: Abandoned locality
- Description: village in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine
- Also known as: “Iamnia”, “Jabneh”, “Jamnia”, “Yavne”, “Yavneh”, “Yibnah”, and “Yibneh”
- Historically known as: “Yabne”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yavne - East and Rabban Gamliel Grave.
Yavne - East
Railway station
Photo: Shuki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yavne–East railway station is one of two railway stations in Yavne, Israel. It is on the suburban line Binyamina/Netanya–Tel Aviv–Rehovot/Ashkelon. Yavne East was opened in 1992 and was fully rebuilt in 2009.
Rabban Gamliel Grave
The mausoleum of Abu Hurayra, or Rabban Gamaliel's Tomb, is a maqam turned synagogue in Sanhedrin Park in Yavne, Rehovot Subdistrict, in the Central District of Israel, formerly belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Yibna.
Yibna Bridge
Bridge
The Yibna Bridge or Nahr Rubin Bridge is a Mamluk arch bridge near Yibna, which crosses the Nahal Sorek. It was previously used by Route 410 to Rehovot, and was known as the Jumping Bridge due to a bump in the middle of the bridge which caused cars to jump if speeding.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yavne and Beit Gamliel.
Yavne
Town
Yavne is a city in the Central District of Israel. In 2024 it had a population of 58,090. Modern Yavne was established in 1949. It is located near the ruins of the ancient town of Yibna, later the village of Yibna, and today the archeological site of Tel Yavne.
Beit Gamliel
Village
Photo: אסף.צ, Public domain.
Beit Gamliel is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located south-east of Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In 2024, it had a population of 987.
Ben Zakai
Village
Ben Zakai is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,025.
Yibna
- Categories: depopulated Palestinian village, human settlement, village, and former settlement
- Location: Central District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Yibna” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يبنا”
- Arabic: “يبنه”
- Catalan: “Jibna”
- Chinese: “伊布纳”
- Danish: “Yibna”
- Finnish: “Yibna”
- French: “Yibna”
- French: “Yubna, Yibneh”
- French: “Yubna”
- Hebrew: “יבנא”
- Hebrew: “יבנה”
- Indonesian: “Yibna”
- Malay: “Yibna”
- Persian: “یبنا”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jibna”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yibna”
- Ukrainian: “Ібелін”
- Urdu: “یبنیٰ”
- Welsh: “Yibna”
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