Jerusalem District
The Jerusalem District is one of the six administrative districts of Israel. The district capital is Jerusalem and its total land area is 652 km2. The population of 1,159,900 is 66.3% Jewish and 32.1% Arab.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: districts of Israel with 1,160,000 residents
- Description: one of the six districts of Israel
- Also known as: “Jerusalem”, “Jerusalem Region”, and “Yerushalayim”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Avshalom Cave and Beit Shemesh Railway Station.
Avshalom Cave
Cave
Photo: Relly.hendel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Avshalom Cave, known in academic literature as Soreq Cave and popularly as Stalactites Cave, is a 5,000 m2 cave on the western side of Mt. Ye'ela, in the Judean hills in Israel, known for its dense concentration of stalactites and other cave formations.
Beit Shemesh Railway Station
Railway station
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Beit Shemesh railway station is an Israel Railways station in Beit Shemesh, Israel, on the Tel Aviv–Lod–Jerusalem line. The station is located near the northern industrial zone of Beit Shemesh.
Beit Jimal
Monastery
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Beit Jimal or Beit Jamal is a Catholic monastery run by Salesian priests and brothers near Beit Shemesh, Israel. The Christian tradition identifies the site with the Roman- and Byzantine-era Jewish village of Caphargamala, and believe that inside a cave in the area, there is the tomb of Saint Stephen or to have conserved his relics.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beit Shemesh and Latrun.
Beit Shemesh
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Beit Shemesh is a city in the Shfela region of Israel, with a population of 119,000. Excluding the West Bank, Beit Shemesh is the closest city to Jerusalem.
Latrun
Latrun is a hilltop in Shfelah overlooking the road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 25 kilometers west of Jerusalem. The hill is home to several sights.
Eshtaol
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eshtaol is a moshav in central Israel, and a biblical location mentioned in the Books of Joshua and Judges and in the first Book of Chronicles. Located 6 km north of the city of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.
Jerusalem District
- Location: Israel, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Jerusalem District” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Jerusalem distrik”
- Afrikaans: “Jerusalem-distrik”
- Arabic: “منطقة القدس”
- Aragonese: “Destrito de Cherusalem”
- Aragonese: “Districto de Cherusalem”
- Armenian: “Երուսաղեմի մարզ”
- Asturian: “distritu de Xerusalén”
- Asturian: “Distritu de Xerusalén”
- Asturian: “Xerusalén”
- Azerbaijani: “Qüds dairəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “Yerusəlim dairəsi”
- Basque: “Jerusalem barrutia”
- Basque: “Jerusalemgo barrutia”
- Bavarian: “Beziak Jerusalem”
- Belarusian: “Ерусалімская акруга”
- Belarusian: “Іерусалімская акруга”
- Bengali: “জেরুজালেম জেলা”
- Breton: “Distrig Jeruzalem”
- Bulgarian: “Йерусалимски окръг”
- Catalan: “districte de Jerusalem”
- Catalan: “Districte de Jerusalem”
- Cebuano: “Jerusalem”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ئورشەلیم”
- Chechen: “Къудс-ГӀалин кӀошт”
- Chinese: “Jerusalem Koān”
- Chinese: “耶路撒冷区”
- Chinese: “耶路撒冷區”
- Czech: “ISO 3166-2:IL-JM”
- Czech: “Jeruzalémská oblast”
- Czech: “Jeruzalémský distrikt”
- Czech: “Jeruzalémský kraj”
- Czech: “Jeruzalémský region”
- Danish: “Jerusalem-distriktet”
- Dutch: “Jeruzalem”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منطقة اورشليم”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Jerusalem”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Jerusalemo”
- Esperanto: “Jerusalema distrikto”
- Estonian: “Jeruusalemma ringkond”
- Finnish: “Jerusalemin hallintoalue”
- French: “district de Jérusalem”
- French: “District de Jérusalem”
- French: “Jérusalem”
- Galician: “Distrito de Xerusalén”
- German: “Bezirk Jerusalem”
- German: “IL-JM”
- German: “Jerusalem”
- Greek: “Διαμέρισμα των Ιεροσολύμων”
- Hebrew: “Meẖoz Yerushalayim”
- Hebrew: “יישובים במחוז ירושלים”
- Hebrew: “ירושלים”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ירושלים”
- Hebrew: “נפת ירושלים”
- Hungarian: “Jeruzsálemi körzet”
- Icelandic: “Jerúsalemumdæmi”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Yerusalem”
- Italian: “distretto di Gerusalemme”
- Italian: “Distretto di Gerusalemme”
- Japanese: “エルサレム地区”
- Kabyle: “tama n Uracalim”
- Kazakh: “Иерусалим округі”
- Korean: “예루살렘구”
- Ladino: “Distrito de Yerushalayim”
- Latvian: “Jeruzalemes apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Jeruzalės apskritis”
- Lithuanian: “Jeruzalės apygarda”
- Macedonian: “Ерусалим”
- Malay: “Daerah Jerusalem”
- Maltese: “Distrett ta‘ Ġerusalemm”
- Manx: “Slyst Jerusalem”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jerusalem Koān”
- Mingrelian: “იერუსალიმიშ რაიონი”
- Mongolian: “Иерусалим дүүрэг”
- Mongolian: “Иерусалим тойрог”
- Northern Frisian: “Jerusalem (Distrikt)”
- Northern Frisian: “Jerusalem”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jerusalem-distriktet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jerusalemdistriktet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jerusalem distrikt”
- Norwegian: “Jerusalem-distriktet”
- Ossetian: “Иерусалимы зылд”
- Persian: “استان اورشلیم”
- Persian: “منطقه اورشلیم”
- Pfaelzisch: “Bezirk Jerusalem”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Jerozolimy”
- Polish: “Jerozolima”
- Polish: “Prowincja Jerozolima”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Jerusalém”
- Portuguese: “Jerusalém”
- Pushto: “يروشلم ولسوالۍ”
- Quechua: “Yerushalayim distritu”
- Romanian: “Districtul Ierusalim”
- Romanian: “Districtul Ierusalimului”
- Russian: “Иерусалимский округ”
- Scots: “Jerusalem Destrict”
- Serbian: “Jerusalim”
- Serbian: “Јерусалим”
- Slovak: “okres Jeruzalem”
- Slovenian: “Distrikt Jeruzalem”
- Slovenian: “IL-JM”
- Slovenian: “Jeruzalem”
- Slovenian: “Jeruzalemsko okrožje”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Jerusalen”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Jerusalén”
- Spanish: “Distrito Jerusalen”
- Spanish: “Distrito Jerusalén”
- Spanish: “Jerusalem”
- Spanish: “Jerusalém”
- Spanish: “Jerusalen”
- Spanish: “Jerusalén”
- Swedish: “Jerusalem”
- Tajik: “ноҳияи Иерусалим”
- Tamil: “எருசலேம் மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “ஜெருசலேம் மாவட்டம்”
- Turkish: “Kudüs Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Kudüs”
- Ukrainian: “Єрусалимський округ”
- Urdu: “ضلع یروشلم”
- Urdu: “یروشلم ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Jerusalem”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jerusalem (distrito)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jerusalem”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Caersalem”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Caerusalem”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Jeriwsalem”
- Western Panjabi: “یروشلم ضلع”
- Wu Chinese: “耶路撒冷区”
- Yiddish: “ירושלים דיסטריקט”
- Yiddish: “ירושלים פראווינץ”
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