Tell es-Safi
Tell es-Safi was an Arab Palestinian village, located in the Shephelah region on the southern banks of Wadi 'Ajjur, 35 kilometers northwest of Hebron, which had its Arab population expelled during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: depopulated Palestinian village
- Also known as: “Tall as Safi”, “Tel Es Sāfi”, “Tel Zafit”, and “Tell es Sāfi”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gat and Kfar Menahem.
Gat
Locality
Gath or Gat was one of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis during the Iron Age. It was located in northeastern Philistia, close to the border with Judah.
Kfar Menahem
Village
Photo: Shalomig, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kfar Menahem is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located about 7 km east of Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,358. Kfar Menahem is situated 3½ km north of Tell es-Safi.
Al-Ghazi
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Al-'Azi is an Arab village in central Israel. Located just south of Kfar Menahem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council. In 2023, it had a population of 193. Al-Ghazi is situated 3½ km northwest of Tell es-Safi.
Tell es-Safi
- Categories: village, former settlement, depopulated Palestinian village, human settlement, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Southern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Tell es-Safi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تل الصافي”
- Catalan: “Tell es-Safi”
- Cebuano: “Tel Ẕafit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تل الصافى”
- French: “Blanche Garde”
- French: “Saphitha”
- French: “Tell es-Safi”
- German: “Tel Tsafit”
- German: “Tell es-Safi”
- Hebrew: “Tel Ẕafit”
- Hebrew: “תל א-צאפי”
- Hebrew: “תל צפית”
- Indonesian: “Tell es-Safi”
- Japanese: “テル・エス＝サフィ”
- Japanese: “テル・ツァフィート”
- Latin: “Saphitha”
- Persian: “تل صافی”
- Polish: “Tall as-Safi”
- Polish: “Tell es-Safi”
- Portuguese: “Tel Safi”
- Spanish: “Blanchegarde”
- Spanish: “Tall al Safi”
- Spanish: “Tel Safi”
- Spanish: “Tel Tsafit”
- Spanish: “Tell es-Safi”
- Swedish: “Tell es-Safi”
- Urdu: “تل الصافی”
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