Majdal Yaba
Majdal Yaba was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, 18.5 kilometres northeast of Ramla and 4 kilometres east of Jaffa. A walled Jewish settlement name Migdal Aphek stood at the same site as early as the second century BCE, and it was later destroyed by the Romans during the First Jewish–Roman War in 67 CE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Abandoned locality
- Description: village in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine
- Also known as: “Majdal as Sadiq”, “Majdal Sadiq”, “Majdal-Sadek”, “Migdal Afeq”, “Migdal Tsedek”, “Migdal Tsedeq”, “Migdal Tzedek”, “Migdal Yafo”, “Migdal Zedek”, and “Mirabel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Migdal Afek and Antipatroos fortress;Tel Afek.
Migdal Afek
Building
Migdal Afek, also Migdal Tsedek, is a national park on the southeastern edge of Rosh HaAyin, Israel. The ruins of a fortified manor house built by a sheikh during the 19th century, among which remains of the Crusader castle of Mirabel can be seen, are today known in Hebrew as Migdal Afek or Migdal Tsedek.
Antipatroos fortress;Tel Afek
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 central Israel, was inhabited from the Chalcolithic period to the Late Roman period. Antipatroos fortress;Tel Afek is situated 3 km northwest of Majdal Yaba.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Einat and Rosh HaAyin.
Einat
Village
Photo: Avi1111, Public domain.
Einat is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located near Petah Tikva and south of Rosh HaAyin, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 902.
Rosh HaAyin
Town
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Rosh HaAyin is a city in the Central District 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 Yarkon River.
Nahshonim
Village
Photo: Avi1111, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nahshonim is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the south of the Sharon plain near Rosh HaAyin, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 471. Nahshonim is situated 2½ km south of Majdal Yaba.
Majdal Yaba
- Category: depopulated Palestinian village
- Location: Central District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Majdal Yaba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قرية مجدل الصادق”
- Arabic: “قرية مجدل يابا”
- Arabic: “مجدل الصادق”
- Arabic: “مجدل يابا”
- Catalan: “Majdal Yaba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مجدل يابا”
- French: “Majdal Yaba”
- Hebrew: “מג’דל יאבא”
- Indonesian: “Majdal Yaba”
- Polish: “Madżdal Jaba”
- Urdu: “مجدل یابا”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include H̱orbat Migdal Afeq and Gan Le’ummi Migdal Afeq.
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