Ksalon
Ksalon is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 524.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 430 residents
- Description: human settlement in Israel
- Also known as: “Kesalon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kasla and Scroll of Fire.
Kasla
Ruins
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kasla or Kesla was a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 17, 1948, by the Harel Brigade of Operation Dani. It was located 17 km west of Jerusalem.
Scroll of Fire
Monument
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scroll of Fire is a monument found in the Forest of the Martyrs, on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. It commemorates Jewish history from The Holocaust until the independence of the State of Israel in 1948.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ramat Raziel and Beit Meir.
Ramat Raziel
Village
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ramat Raziel is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the centre of the Jerusalem corridor, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 675.
Beit Meir
Village
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beit Meir is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located around nine miles from Jerusalem, just off the Highway 1, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 650. Beit Meir is situated 2½ km northwest of Ksalon.
Shoresh
Village
Photo: אסף.צ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shoresh is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located five kilometres from Sha'ar HaGai in the Jerusalem corridor, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,314. Shoresh is situated 3 km northeast of Ksalon.
Ksalon
- Categories: human settlement, moshav, and locality
- Location: Jerusalem District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.77409° or 31° 46′ 27″ northLongitude
35.04923° or 35° 2′ 57″ eastPopulation
430Elevation
589 metres (1,932 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ2FX+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1643319096OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
294479Wikidata ID
Q607414
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Ksalon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “کسالون”
- Czech: “Kesalon”
- Czech: “Ksalon”
- Dutch: “Ksalon”
- French: “Ksalon”
- Hebrew: “כסלון”
- Irish: “Ksalon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ksalon”
- Polish: “Kesalon”
- Polish: “Ksalon”
- Turkish: “Ksalon”
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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 “Ksalon”. Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.