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Rosh HaAyin

Rosh HaAyin is a city in the of Israel. It is located in the eastern ravine of the Sharon Plain, opposite the Samaria Mountains. The city is named after its location at the source of the .
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  • Type: Town with 72,900 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Ras al-‘Ayn”, “Rosh Ha Ayin”, and “Rosh Ha‘Ayin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Antipatroos fortress;Tel Afek and Kesem cave.

Ruins
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Antipatris was a city built during the first century BC by Herod the Great, who named it in honour of his father, Antipater. The site, now a national park in , was inhabited from the Chalcolithic period to the Late Roman period.

Ruins
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Qesem Cave is a Lower Paleolithic archaeological site near the city of in . Early humans were occupying the site by 400,000 until c. 200,000 years ago.

Railway station
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The is a suburban passenger railway station in , operated by Israel Railways. It is situated in north Rosh HaAyin near the Kesem Interchange which is located at the intersection of Highway 5 and the Cross-Israel Highway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Petah Tikva and Kafr Qasim.

Photo: Ynhockey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an eastern suburb of , , population 248,000. For those into early Zionist history, a number of the old buildings have been preserved, though they can be hard to find, and the signs describing them are only in Hebrew.

Village
Photo: Nizzan Cohen, CC BY 4.0.
, also spelled as Kafr Qassem, Kufur Kassem, Kfar Kassem and Kafar Kassem, is an Arab city in . It is located about 20 km east of , on the Israeli side of the Green Line separating Israel and the , in the southern portion of the "Little Triangle" of Arab-Israeli towns and villages.

Town
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El'ad is a city in the of . In the 1990s, it was built for a Haredi population and to a lesser extent, it was also built for a Religious Zionist Jewish population. is situated 5 km south of Rosh HaAyin.

Rosh HaAyin

Latitude
32.0953° or 32° 5′ 43″ north
Longitude
34.9533° or 34° 57′ 12″ east
Population
72,900
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL RHA
Open location code
8G4P3XW3+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246255482
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
293690
Wiki­data ID
Q168202
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Rosh HaAyin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رأس العین”
  • Arabic: “روش هاعين”
  • Armenian: “Ռոշ ՀաԱյին”
  • Asturian: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Roş-ha-Ain”
  • Belarusian: “Рош-га-Аін”
  • Belarusian: “Рош-ха-Аін”
  • Catalan: “Roix Ha-Àyin”
  • Cebuano: “Rosh Ha‘Ayin”
  • Chinese: “罗什艾因”
  • Chinese: “羅什艾因”
  • Czech: “Roš ha-Ajin”
  • Czech: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Dutch: “Rosh Ha’ayin”
  • Dutch: “Rosh Haayin”
  • Dutch: “Rosj Haäjin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روش هاعين”
  • Esperanto: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Finnish: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • French: “Rosh Ha’Ayin”
  • French: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Galician: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • German: “Rosch haAjin”
  • German: “Rosh Ha’ain”
  • German: “Rosh Haayin”
  • Hebrew: “ראש העין” (historical)
  • Hebrew: “ראש-העין”
  • Hindi: “रोश हा-ऐइन”
  • Hungarian: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Indonesian: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Irish: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Italian: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Japanese: “ロシュ・ハアイン”
  • Japanese: “ロッシュ・ハアイン”
  • Maltese: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Persian: “روش هاعین”
  • Polish: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Polish: “Rosz ha-Ajin”
  • Polish: “Rosz HaAjin”
  • Portuguese: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Russian: “Рош Аин”
  • Russian: “Рош ха-Аин”
  • Russian: “Рош ха-Айн”
  • Russian: “Рош-Аин”
  • Russian: “Рош-ха-Аин”
  • Russian: “Рош-ха-Айин”
  • Scots: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Serbian: “Рош Хајин”
  • Spanish: “Rosh Ha’ayin”
  • Spanish: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Swahili: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Swedish: “Rosh Ha‘Ayin”
  • Tagalog: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Turkish: “Roş HaAyin”
  • Ukrainian: “Рош-га-Аїн”
  • Ukrainian: “Рош-ха-Аїн”
  • Urdu: “راس العین، اسرائیل”
  • Urdu: “روش ہاعین، اسرائیل”
  • Vietnamese: “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rosh HaAyin”
  • Yiddish: “ראש העין”

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