Tel Be’er Sheva
Tel Sheva, Tel Be'er Sheva, or Tell es-Seba, is an archaeological site in the Southern District of Israel, believed to be the site of the ancient biblical town of Beer-sheba.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Israel
- Also known as: “Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba”, “Tel Be’er Sheva‘”, “Tel Be’er Sheva`”, and “Tel Beersheba”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Soroka hospital and Beer Sheva North - University.
Soroka hospital
Hospital
Soroka University Medical Center, a part of the Clalit Health Services Group, is the general hospital of Beersheba, Israel, it serves as the central hospital of the region and provides medical services to approximately one million residents of the South, from Kiryat Gat and Ashkelon to Eilat. Soroka hospital is situated 4 km west of Tel Be’er Sheva.
Beer Sheva North - University
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tel Sheva and Omer.
Tel Sheva
Town
Omer
Village
Omer is an affluent town in the Southern District of Israel, bordering Beersheba. It is located on Highway 60, between Beersheba and the Shoket Junction. In 2024 it had a population of 8,078. Omer is situated 2½ km north of Tel Be’er Sheva.
Nevatim
Village
Nevatim is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the northern Negev desert around 8 km south-east of Beersheba, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. Nevatim is situated 4½ km southeast of Tel Be’er Sheva.
Tel Be’er Sheva
- Categories: tell, national park, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Southern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.24554° or 31° 14′ 44″ north
Longitude
34.84089° or 34° 50′ 27″ east
Elevation
297 metres (974 feet)
Open location code
8G3P6RWR+69
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Tel Be’er Sheva” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تل أبو محفوظ”
- Arabic: “تل ابو محفوظ”
- Arabic: “تل السبع”
- Arabic: “تل بئر السبع”
- Bulgarian: “Вирсавия”
- Catalan: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
- Cebuano: “Tel Be’ér Sheva‘”
- Chinese: “特尔别是巴”
- Chinese: “特爾別是巴”
- Croatian: “Tel Beer Ševa”
- Czech: “Biblické tely – Megido, Chacor, Tel Be’er Ševa”
- Czech: “Tel Be’er Ševa”
- Dutch: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تل بئر السبع”
- Finnish: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
- French: “Tel Beer Sheva”
- German: “Tel Be’er Scheva”
- German: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
- German: “Tell Be’er Scheva”
- Hebrew: “Tel Be’ér Sheva‘”
- Hebrew: “תל באר שבע”
- Italian: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
- Japanese: “Tel Beer Sheba”
- Japanese: “テル・ベエル・シェバ”
- Mongolian: “Тел Беер Шеба”
- Mongolian: “Тел Беэр-Шева”
- Persian: “تل شیوا”
- Polish: “Beer Szewa”
- Polish: “Tel Beer Szewa”
- Portuguese: “Tel Berseba”
- Russian: “Тель Беэр-Шева”
- Russian: “Тель-Беэр-Шева”
- Slovak: “Tel Beer Ševa”
- Spanish: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
- Spanish: “Tel Sheva”
- Spanish: “Tell Be’er Sheva”
- Spanish: “Tell es-Seba”
- Turkish: “Tel Beer Sheba”
- Ukrainian: “Тель-Беер-Шева”
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