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Yavne

Yavne is a city in the of . In 2023 it had a population of 57,725. 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 Palestine
  • Also known as: “Kefar Yavne”, “Kfar Yavne”, “Kfar Yavneh”, “New Yavne”, and “Rehovot”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yavne - West and Rabban Gamliel Grave.

Railway station
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Yavne–West railway station is a passenger railway station in Yavne, and is one of two railway stations in the city. The station is located between the Rishon LeZion Moshe Dayan railway station to the north and the Ashdod railway station to the south.

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The mausoleum of Abu Hurayra, or Rabban Gamaliel's Tomb, is a maqam turned synagogue in Sanhedrin Park in Yavne, Rehovot Subdistrict, in the , formerly belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of .

Bridge
The or Nahr Rubin Bridge is a Mamluk arch bridge near , which crosses the . It was previously used by Route 410 to , 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 Kfar HaNagid and Ben Zakai.

Village
Photo: Shuki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a moshav in central . Located in the around 20 km south of and north of Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of . In 2023 it had a population of 971.

Village
is a religious moshav in central . Located in the , it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 997. 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 . Located in the and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of . In 2023 it had a population of 1,052. 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)
United Nations Location Code
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”
  • Cebuano: “Yavne”
  • Chinese: “亚夫内”
  • Chinese: “亞夫內”
  • Croatian: “Jabna”
  • Czech: “Jabne”
  • Czech: “Jabné”
  • Czech: “Jamnia”
  • Czech: “Jamnie”
  • Czech: “Javne”
  • Czech: “Yibna”
  • Dutch: “Iamnia”
  • Dutch: “Jamnia”
  • Dutch: “Javne”
  • Dutch: “Javneh”
  • Dutch: “Yamnia”
  • Dutch: “Yavne”
  • Dutch: “Yavneh”
  • Dutch: “Yibna”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يفنه”
  • Esperanto: “Javne”
  • Finnish: “Yavne”
  • French: “Jamnia”
  • French: “Javné”
  • French: “Yabné”
  • French: “Yavne”
  • French: “Yavné”
  • French: “Yavneh”
  • French: “Yebna”
  • German: “Jabne”
  • German: “Jabneh”
  • German: “Jamnia”
  • German: “Javne”
  • German: “Jawne”
  • Greek: “Γιαβνέ”
  • Hebrew: “Yavné”
  • Hebrew: “איבלין (בתקופה הצלבנית)”
  • Hebrew: “יַבְנֶה (מנוקד)”
  • Hebrew: “יבנה”
  • Hindi: “यवने”
  • Hungarian: “Javne”
  • Indonesian: “Yamnia”
  • Italian: “Iamnia”
  • Italian: “Jamnia”
  • Italian: “Yavne”
  • Japanese: “ヤブネ”
  • Japanese: “ヤムニア”
  • Korean: “야브네”
  • Latin: “Iamnia”
  • Lithuanian: “Javnė”
  • Malagasy: “Jamnia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yavne”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yavne”
  • Persian: “یبنه”
  • Polish: “Jamnia”
  • Polish: “Jawne”
  • Polish: “Yavne”
  • Portuguese: “Yavne”
  • Romanian: “Yavne”
  • Russian: “Явне”
  • Russian: “Ямния”
  • Scots: “Yavne”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yavne”
  • Spanish: “Yabne”
  • Spanish: “Yabné”
  • Spanish: “Yavne”
  • Swahili: “Yavne”
  • Swedish: “Javne”
  • Swedish: “Yavne”
  • Swedish: “Yibnah”
  • Swiss German: “Jawne”
  • Tagalog: “Iamnia”
  • Tagalog: “Jabneh”
  • Tagalog: “Jamnia”
  • Tagalog: “Yavne”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Jawne”
  • Turkish: “Yavne”
  • Ukrainian: “Явне”
  • Ukrainian: “Ямнія”
  • Urdu: “یفنہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Yavne”
  • Yiddish: “יבנה”

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