Ashkelon
The Ashkelon railway station is a railway station that is located in Ashkelon, Israel. It is the southern terminus of the Binyamina–Tel Aviv–Ashkelon and the Ra'anana–Rishon LeZion–Ashkelon suburban lines.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: railway station in Israel
- Also known as: “‘Asqalān”, “Ascalo”, “Ashkelon railway station”, “Ashkelon Railway Station”, “Ashkelon Station”, “Askalan”, and “Askelon”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Barzilai Medical Center and Ashkelon Sports Arena.
Barzilai Medical Center
Hospital
Photo: Eman, Public domain.
Barzilai Medical Center is a 600-bed district general hospital in Ashkelon, Israel opened in 1961. The hospital serves a population of 500,000, including a large number of Ethiopian and Russian immigrants, and has more than 100,000 admissions annually. Barzilai Medical Center is situated 1 km east of Ashkelon.
Ashkelon Sports Arena
Sports venue
A.S. Elitzur Ashkelon is a professional basketball team based in Ashkelon in south west Israel. The club currently plays in Israeli National League. The team is named after the late Itamar Sharvit, who has been Elizur Ashkelon's maintenance manager for 18 years. Ashkelon Sports Arena is situated 2 km east of Ashkelon.
Ni`ilya
Ruins
Ni'ilya was a Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on November 4, 1948, under Operation Yo'av. Ni`ilya is situated 3 km southeast of Ashkelon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ashkelon and Bat Hadar.
Ashkelon
Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ashkelon or Ashqelon Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן Arabic عسقلان ˁAsqalān; is a city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, 50 km to the south of Tel Aviv.
Bat Hadar
Village
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Bat Hadar is a community settlement in southern Israel. Located near Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 661. Bat Hadar is situated 4½ km east of Ashkelon.
Mavki’im
Village
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Mavki'im is a moshav in southern Israel. Located near Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 515. Mavki’im is situated 5 km southeast of Ashkelon.
Ashkelon
- Categories: railway station, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Southern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Ashkelon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عسقلان”
- Arabic: “محطة قطار أشكلون”
- Catalan: “Ascaló”
- Cebuano: “Tel Ashqelon”
- Czech: “Aškelon”
- Czech: “Železniční stanice Aškelon”
- Danish: “Ashkelon”
- Dutch: “Ashkelon”
- Dutch: “Station Ashkelon”
- Dutch: “Station Asjkelon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة اشكيلون”
- Esperanto: “Aŝkelon”
- Estonian: “Ashqelon”
- Finnish: “Askalon”
- French: “Ascalon”
- French: “Ashkelon”
- German: “Askalon”
- Greek: “Ασκαλών”
- Hebrew: “אשקלון”
- Hebrew: “תחנת אשקלון”
- Hebrew: “תחנת הרכבת אשקלון”
- Hebrew: “תל אשקלון”
- Polish: “Aszkelon”
- Portuguese: “Ascalon”
- Romanian: “Așkelon”
- Russian: “Ашкелон”
- Spanish: “Ascalón”
- Swedish: “Ashkelon”
- Yiddish: “אשקלון באן סטאנציע”
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