Nof HaGalil
Nof HaGalil is a city in the Northern District of Israel with a population of 45,805. Nof HaGalil was founded in 1957 as Nazareth Illit, it was planned as a Jewish town overlooking the city of Nazareth and the Jezreel Valley.Photo: Beny Shlevich, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 55,000 residents
- Description: Mixed city in northern Israel, formerly named Nazareth Illit
- Also known as: “Kiryat-Natsrat”, “Natsrat Elit”, “Natzrat Elit”, “Natzrat Ilit”, “Nazareth Elit”, “Nazareth Elite”, “Nazareth Ilit”, “Nazareth-la-Haute”, “Nazerat ‘Illit”, “Nazrat-Illit”, “Nof ha-Galil”, “Qiryat Naṣrat”, and “Upper Nazareth”
- Historically known as: “Natsrat Ilit”, “Natzrath Ilith”, “Nazareth Illit”, “Naẕerat ‘Ilit”, “Naẕerat ‘Illit”, and “Nazrath Illit”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Annunciation and Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation.
Church of the Annunciation
Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
The Church of the Annunciation, sometimes also referred to as the Basilica of the Annunciation, is a Catholic church in Nazareth, in northern Israel. It is one of two claimants to the site of the Annunciation – in which angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and announced that she would give birth to Jesus – the other being the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation.
Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation
Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
The Greek Orthodox Church of St. Gabriel, also known as the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, is an Eastern Orthodox church in Nazareth, Israel. It is one of two claimants to the site of the Annunciation - where angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and announced that she would give birth to Jesus - the other being the Catholic Basilica of the Annunciation.
Al-Masjid Al-Abyadh
Mosque
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nazareth and Iksal.
Nazareth
Photo: Tiamat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nazareth is a city in northern Israel. It is the largest Arab city in Israel proper, having a population of 60,000, a harmonious mix of Muslims and Christians.
Iksal
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Iksal is an Arab local council in northern Israel, about 5 kilometres southeast of Nazareth. It has an area of 9,000 dunams and a population of 15,134 primarily Muslim inhabitants.
Reineh
Village
Photo: Almog, Public domain.
Reineh is an Arab town in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee, between Nazareth and Qana of Galilee, it attained local council status in 1968. In 2024 it had a population of 20,653, the majority of whom are Muslims, with a significant Christian minority.
Nof HaGalil
- Categories: city, city council, and locality
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.70231° or 32° 42′ 8″ northLongitude
35.31832° or 35° 19′ 6″ eastPopulation
55,000Elevation
506 metres (1,660 feet)Open location code
8G4QP829+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 214022033OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
294097Wikidata ID
Q167659
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Nof HaGalil” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الناصرة العليا”
- Arabic: “ناصيرات عيليت”
- Arabic: “نتسرات عيليت”
- Arabic: “نوف الجليل”
- Arabic: “نوف هجليل”
- Arabic: “نوف هَچليل”
- Arabic: “نوف هغليل”
- Armenian: “Նոֆ ՀաԳալիլ”
- Asturian: “Nof HaGalil”
- Belarusian: “Ноф-ха-Галіль”
- Catalan: “Natzaret Il·lit”
- Cebuano: “Naẕerat ‘Illit”
- Central Kurdish: “نۆف ھەگەلیل”
- Chinese: “上拿撒勒”
- Chinese: “拿撒勒伊利特”
- Czech: “Kirjat Nacaret”
- Czech: “Nacaret Ilit”
- Czech: “Nazaret Illit”
- Czech: “Nof ha-Galil”
- Danish: “Nazareth Illit”
- Danish: “Nazerat Illit”
- Dutch: “Nazareth Illit”
- Dutch: “Nazrath Illit”
- Dutch: “Nazreth Illit”
- Dutch: “Nof HaGalil”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الناصره العليا”
- Esperanto: “Nof HaGalil”
- Finnish: “Nasaret Illit”
- Finnish: “Nof HaGalil”
- French: “Nazareth Illit”
- French: “Nazrat Ilit”
- French: “Nof HaGalil”
- Georgian: “ნაზარეთ-ილითი”
- German: “Nazareth-Illit”
- German: “Nof HaGalil”
- Greek: “Νοφ ΧαΓκαλίλ”
- Hebrew: “Naẕerat ‘Illit” (historical)
- Hebrew: “Nof HaGalil”
- Hebrew: “נ’ע”
- Hebrew: “נוף הגליל”
- Hebrew: “נוֹף הַגָּלִיל”
- Hebrew: “נצרת עילית”
- Hebrew: “נצרת עלית”
- Hungarian: “Nazareth Illit”
- Hungarian: “Nazrat-Illit”
- Indonesian: “Natzrat Illit”
- Indonesian: “Nazaret Illit”
- Indonesian: “Nazareth Illit”
- Indonesian: “Nazerat Illit”
- Italian: “Nazaret Illit”
- Italian: “Nof HaGalil”
- Japanese: “アッパー・ナザレ”
- Japanese: “ナザレ・イリット”
- Japanese: “ナザレ・イリト”
- Japanese: “ノフ・ハガリル”
- Korean: “나자렛일리트”
- Korean: “노프하갈릴”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinis Nazaretas”
- Lithuanian: “Nazerat Ilitas”
- Lombard: “Nazaret Illit”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nof HaGalil”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nof HaGalil”
- Norwegian: “Nof HaGalil”
- Ossetian: “Ноф-ха-Галиль”
- Persian: “ناتسرات عیلیت”
- Piemontese: “Nàsaret Illit”
- Piemontese: “Nàsaret-Illit”
- Polish: “Nacerat Illit”
- Polish: “Nof ha-Galil”
- Portuguese: “Nazaré Illit”
- Portuguese: “Nazareth Illit”
- Portuguese: “Nof HaGalil”
- Russian: “Верхний Назарет”
- Russian: “Назарет Иллит”
- Russian: “Назарет-Илит”
- Russian: “Назарет-Иллит”
- Russian: “Назарет-Эллит”
- Russian: “Нацерат-Иллит”
- Russian: “Нацерет-Илит”
- Russian: “Нацерет-Иллит”
- Russian: “Нацерет-Элит”
- Russian: “Нацрат-Илит”
- Russian: “Нацрат-Иллит”
- Russian: “Нацрат-Элит”
- Russian: “Ноф-ха-Галиль”
- Russian: “Ноф-Ха-Галиль”
- Scots: “Nazareth Illit”
- Serbian: “Natzerat Illit”
- Serbian: “Nazaret Ilit”
- Serbian: “Nazareth Illit”
- Serbian: “Назарет Илит”
- Serbian: “Ноф Хагалил”
- Serbian: “נצרת עילית”
- Spanish: “Alta Nazaret”
- Spanish: “Nazareth Illit”
- Spanish: “Nof HaGalil”
- Spanish: “נָצְרַת עִלִּית”
- Swahili: “Nof HaGalil”
- Swedish: “Nasaret Illit”
- Swedish: “Naẕerat ‘Illit”
- Tagalog: “Natzrat Ilit”
- Tagalog: “Nazareth Illit”
- Tagalog: “Nof HaGalil”
- Turkish: “Nof HaGalil”
- Ukrainian: “Назарет Ілліт”
- Ukrainian: “Назарет-Ілліт”
- Ukrainian: “Нацрат-Ілліт”
- Ukrainian: “Ноф-га-Галіль”
- Urdu: “ناصرہ علیا”
- Vietnamese: “Nazareth Illit”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nazareth Illit”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nof HaGalil”
- Yiddish: “נוף הגליל”
- Yiddish: “נצרת עילית”
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