Yavne

Yavne is a city in the of . 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 , and today the archeological site of Tel Yavne.
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  • Type: Town with 48,200 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Jabne”, “Jabné”, “Jabneh”, “Jamnie”, “Javné”, “Javneh”, “Kefar Yavne”, “Kfar Yavne”, “Kfar Yavneh”, “New Yavne”, “Yabne”, “Yabné”, “Yavneh”, “Yebna”, “Yibna”, “Yibnah”, “Ямния”, “Ямнія”, “איבלין (בתקופה הצלבנית)”, “יַבְנֶה (מנוקד)”, and “ヤムニア”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Yavne - West and Rabban Gamliel Grave.

Railway station
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Yavne–West railway station is a passenger railway…

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
The mausoleum of Abu Hurayra, or Rabban Gamaliel's…

Bridge
The or Nahr Rubin Bridge is a Mamluk arch…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kfar HaNagid and Ben Zakai.

Village
Photo: Shuki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a moshav in central .

Village
is a religious moshav in central . is situated 2½ km south of Yavne.

Village
Photo: Gessis777, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ge'alya, sometimes written Galia, is a moshav in central . is situated 3 km east of Yavne.

Yavne

Latitude
31.87884° or 31° 52′ 44″ north
Longitude
34.73644° or 34° 44′ 11″ east
Population
48,200
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IL YVE
Open location code
8G3PVPHP+GH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 45782327
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
293222
Wiki­data ID
Q167677
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Yavne” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يافني”
  • Arabic: “يفنه”
  • Armenian: “Յավնե”
  • Asturian: “Yavne”
  • Belarusian: “Яўнэ”
  • Catalan: “Jamnia”
  • Catalan: “Yavne”
  • Cebuano: “Jamnia”
  • Central Kurdish: “یەڤنە”
  • Chinese: “亚夫内”
  • Chinese: “亞夫內”
  • Croatian: “Jabna”
  • Czech: “Javne”
  • Dutch: “Javne”
  • Dutch: “Yavne”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يفنه”
  • Esperanto: “Javne”
  • Finnish: “Yavne”
  • French: “Yavné”
  • German: “Javne”
  • German: “Jawne”
  • Greek: “Γιαβνέ”
  • Hebrew: “Yavné”
  • Hebrew: “יבנה”
  • Hindi: “यवने”
  • Hungarian: “Javne”
  • Indonesian: “Yamnia”
  • Italian: “Yavne”
  • Japanese: “ヤブネ”
  • Korean: “야브네”
  • Latin: “Iamnia”
  • Lithuanian: “Javnė”
  • Malagasy: “Jamnia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yavne”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yavne”
  • Persian: “یبنه”
  • Polish: “Jawne”
  • Portuguese: “Yavne”
  • Romanian: “Yavne”
  • Russian: “Явне”
  • Scots: “Yavne”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yavne”
  • Spanish: “Yavne”
  • Swahili: “Yavne”
  • Swedish: “Javne”
  • Swiss German: “Jawne”
  • Tagalog: “Yavne”
  • Turkish: “Yavne”
  • Ukrainian: “Явне”
  • Urdu: “یفنہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Yavne”
  • Yiddish: “יבנה”

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