Yanuh-Jat

Yanuh–Jat is an Israeli Druze village and local council in the Northern District of Israel, northeast of Acre, consisting of the villages of Yanuh and Jat, which merged in 1990. In 2023 it had a population of 6,875, all members of the Druze community.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Yehi’am Fortress and Yehiam Fortress National Park.

Yehi’am Fortress

Castle

Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 3.0.

Khirbat Jiddin, known in the Kingdom of Jerusalem as Judin, was an Ottoman fortress in the western Upper Galilee, originally built by the Teutonic Order after 1220 as a crusader castle, 16 km northeast of the city of Acre, which at the time was the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Yehi’am Fortress is situated 2½ km northwest of Yanuh-Jat.

Yehiam Fortress National Park

Protected area

Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 3.0.

Yehi'am Fortress National Park is an Israeli national park in western Upper Galilee on the grounds of Kibbutz Yehi'am, whose main attractions are the ruins of a hilltop castle in Jiddin. Yehiam Fortress National Park is situated 2½ km northwest of Yanuh-Jat.

Tefen cave

Cave

Photo: SAGI.SUL, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tefen cave is situated 2½ km southeast of Yanuh-Jat.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gitta and Yehiam.

Gitta

Village

Gita is a communal settlement in northern Israel. Located near Ma'alot-Tarshiha, Jat and Yirka, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 274.

Yehiam

Village

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Yehiam is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located at the western Upper Galilee, eight miles east of the coastal town of Nahariya and 14 miles south-east of the border with Lebanon it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. Yehiam is situated 3 km northwest of Yanuh-Jat.

Yanuh-Jat

Type: Village
Also known as: “Jat” and “Jatt”
Category: locality
Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude

32.97366° or 32° 58′ 25″ north

Longitude

35.23285° or 35° 13′ 58″ east

Elevation

387 metres (1,270 feet)

Open location code

8G4QX6FM+F4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 278477541

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

294629

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Russian—“Yanuh-Jat” goes by many names.

Arabic: “جت”
French: “Jatt”
French: “Yanuh”
Hebrew: “ג‘ת”
Hebrew: “ג׳ת”
Russian: “Джат”

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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 “Yanuh-Jat”. Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.