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Mesilat Zion

Mesilat Zion is a moshav in central . Located near the city of with an area of 1,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 934.
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  • Type: Village with 1,220 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Israel
  • Also known as: “Mesilat Tsiyon”, “Mesillat Tsiyon”, “Mesillat Tsiyyon”, “Mesillat Zion”, “Mesillat Ẕiyyon”, “MesillatTsiyyon”, and “Messilat Zion”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Burma Road and Bayt Mahsir.

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in was a makeshift bypass road between Kibbutz and , built under the supervision of General Mickey Marcus during the 1948 Siege of Jerusalem. It was named for the Chinese .

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was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948, by the Harel Brigade of Operation Makkabi. It was located 9 km west of .

Memorial
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eshtaol and Beit Meir.

Village
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is a moshav in central , and a biblical location mentioned in the Books of Joshua and Judges and in the first Book of Chronicles. Located 6 km north of the city of , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.

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is a religious moshav in central . Located around nine miles from , just off the Highway 1, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 650. is situated 2½ km east of Mesilat Zion.

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is a moshav in central . Located to the north of with an area of 1,800 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. is situated 3½ km southwest of Mesilat Zion.

Mesilat Zion

Latitude
31.80181° or 31° 48′ 7″ north
Longitude
35.01153° or 35° 0′ 42″ east
Population
1,220
Elevation
306 metres (1,004 feet)
Open location code
8G3QR226+PJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 275295953
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
294252
Wiki­data ID
Q2778355
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Mesilat Zion” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مسيلات تسيون”
  • Czech: “Mesilat Cijon”
  • Czech: “Mesilat Zion”
  • Czech: “Mesillat Ziyyon”
  • French: “Mesilat Zion”
  • Hebrew: “מסילת ציון”
  • Hebrew: “מסילת-ציון”
  • Hebrew: “מסלת ציון”
  • Hebrew: “מְסִלַּת צִיּוֹן”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mesilat Zion”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mesilat Zion”
  • Polish: “Mesillat Cijjon”
  • Polish: “Mesillat Syjon”
  • Russian: “Месиллат-Цийон”
  • Slovenian: “Mesilat Zion”
  • Spanish: “Mesilat Zion”
  • Turkish: “Mesilat Zion”
  • Ukrainian: “Месілат Ціон”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mesilat Zion”. Photo: Idobi, CC BY-SA 3.0.