Kafr Lam

Kafr Lam was a Palestinian Arab village located 26 kilometres south of on the Mediterranean coast. The name of the village was shared with that of an Islamic fort constructed there early in the period of Arab Caliphate rule in Palestine.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Abandoned locality
  • Description: village in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
  • Also known as: “Kafr Lām”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cafarlet and Tel Dor.

Ruins
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or Capharleth or Kafr Lam is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type. Today it is located inside Moshav , , on lands of the now abandoned Arab village of Kafr Lam.

Archaeological site
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or Tell el-Burj, also Khirbet el-Burj in Arabic, is an archaeological site located on the of the Mediterranean Sea next to modern moshav , about 30 kilometers south of , and 2.5 kilometers west of . is situated 2½ km southwest of Kafr Lam.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include HaBonim and Ein Ayala.

Village
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is a moshav shitufi in northern . Located 5 km south of and 3 km north of Kibbutz , it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 465.

Village
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is a semi-cooperative moshav in northern . Located at the foot of around 20 km south of , it falls under the jurisdiction of the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,260.

Village
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is a moshav in northern . Located near , it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,287.

Kafr Lam

Latitude
32.63428° or 32° 38′ 3″ north
Longitude
34.93608° or 34° 56′ 10″ east
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
8G4PJWMP+PC
Geo­Names ID
294609
Wiki­data ID
Q6346183
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Kafr Lam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كفر لام، حيفا”
  • Arabic: “كفر لام”
  • Hebrew: “כפר לאם”
  • Indonesian: “Kafr Lam”
  • Persian: “کفر لام”
  • Urdu: “کفر لام”

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