Middle East
Israel
Northern District

Ma’alot-Tarshiha

Ma'alot-Tarshiha is a city in the North District in , about 20 kilometres east of , and about 600 metres above sea level. The city was established in 1963 through a municipal merger of the Arab town of Tarshiha and the Jewish town of Ma'alot, creating a unique type of mixed city.
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  • Type: Town with 21,100 residents
  • Description: Mixed city in northern Israel
  • Also known as: “Maalot Tarshicha”, “maalot Tarshiha”, “Maalot Tarshiha”, “maalot Tarshīhā”, “Maalot Tarshikha”, “Me`ona `Ironit”, “Tarchiha”, “Tarshihah”, and “Teir Shiha”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Maalot Yakov Herzog Yeshiva and Tarshiha.

Synagogue
Photo: אורי ינון, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yeshivat Ma'alot Ya'akov is a Hesder Yeshiva, founded in 1975 in the town of Maalot following the Ma'alot massacre. The Yeshiva is named after Rabbi Dr.

Police station
Photo: Danny Gershoni, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a police station.

Pond
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is a pond.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Me’ona and Kfar Vradim.

Village
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Me'ona is a moshav in northern . Located between Ma'alot-Tarshiha and , it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,077.

Village
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is a town in , with a population of 5,718 in 2023. It is situated south of Ma'alot-Tarshiha and about 14 kilometres south of the border with Lebanon.

Village
Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 3.0.
Mi'ilya, also called Mi'elya, is an Arab local council in the western Galilee in the of . Its name during the Kingdom of Jerusalem era in Galilee was Castellum Regis.

Ma’alot-Tarshiha

Latitude
33.01574° or 33° 0′ 57″ north
Longitude
35.27597° or 35° 16′ 34″ east
Population
21,100
Elevation
484 metres (1,588 feet)
Open location code
8G5Q278G+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278477967
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
293420
Wiki­data ID
Q152385
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Ma’alot-Tarshiha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “معالوت ترشيحا”
  • Arabic: “معلوت ترشيحا”
  • Armenian: “Մաալոտ Տարշիխա”
  • Asturian: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Belarusian: “Маалот-Таршыха”
  • Catalan: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Catalan: “Maalot-Tarshiha”
  • Catalan: “Maalot-Tarxiha”
  • Cebuano: “Maalot Tarshīhā”
  • Chinese: “馬阿洛特塔希哈”
  • Chinese: “马阿洛特塔希哈”
  • Czech: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Czech: “Ma’alot-Taršicha”
  • Czech: “Ma’alot”
  • Czech: “Maalot-Taršicha”
  • Czech: “Maalot”
  • Dutch: “Ma’alot-Tarshicha”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “معالوت ترشيحا”
  • Esperanto: “Ma’alot-Tarŝiĥa”
  • Finnish: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • French: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Georgian: “მაალოთ-თარშიხა”
  • German: “Ma’alot-Tarschicha”
  • German: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • German: “Ma’alot”
  • German: “Maalot”
  • German: “Maʿalot-Tarschiha”
  • Hebrew: “מעלות תרשיחא”
  • Hebrew: “מעלות-תרשיחא”
  • Hebrew: “מַעֲלוֹת-תַרשִׁיחָא”
  • Hebrew: “מַעֲלוֹת-תַּרְשִׁיחָא”
  • Hebrew: “מעלות”
  • Hebrew: “תרשיחא”
  • Hungarian: “Ma’alot”
  • Indonesian: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Irish: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Italian: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Japanese: “マアロ・タルシハ”
  • Japanese: “マアロト”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Persian: “معالوت ترشیحا”
  • Polish: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Polish: “Ma’alot-Tarszicha”
  • Portuguese: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Romanian: “Ma’alot-Tarșiha”
  • Russian: “Маалот-Таршиха”
  • Russian: “Маалот”
  • Scots: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Scots: “מַעֲלוֹת-תַּרְשִׁיחָא”
  • Serbian: “Малот Таршиха”
  • Spanish: “Ma’alot Tarshiha”
  • Spanish: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Spanish: “Tarshiha”
  • Swahili: “Ma’alot Tarshiha”
  • Swedish: “Maalot Tarshīhā”
  • Tagalog: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Turkish: “Ma’alot-Tarşiha”
  • Ukrainian: “Маалот-Таршиха”
  • Urdu: “معالوت ترشیحا”
  • Urdu: “معلوت ترشیحا”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma’alot-Tarshiha”
  • Yiddish: “מעלות תרשיחא”
  • Yiddish: “מעלות-תרשיחא”
  • “מעלות-תרשיחא”

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