Mount Gilboa
Mount Gilboa, sometimes referred to as the Mountains of Gilboa, is the name for a mountain range in Israel. It overlooks the Harod Valley to the north, and the Jordan Valley and Hills to the southeast and to the west, respectively.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 496 metres
- Description: mountain range in northern Israel
- Also known as: “Gilboa”, “Har HaGilboa”, “Hare Gilboa‘”, “Harei Hagilboa”, “Jebel Faqqu‘a”, “Jebel Faqqua”, and “Mountains of Gilboa‘”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Horbat Gefet and Gan HaShlosha.
Horbat Gefet
Ruins
Khirbat al-Jawfa' was a Palestinian Arab village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war.
Gan HaShlosha
Water park
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gan HaShlosha National Park, also known by its Arabic name Sakhne, is a national park in Israel. Located between kibbutzim Beit Alfa and Nir David, it has naturally warm water where visitors can swim all year. Gan HaShlosha is situated 3½ km northeast of Mount Gilboa.
Ma’alle Gilboa religious school
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Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa is a Shiluv Yeshiva located on Kibbutz Ma'ale Gilboa in Israel's Gilboa Mountains. The Shiluv Yeshiva is unique in that it combines two years of Torah study with the full three years of army service.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ma’ale Gilboa and Faqqua.
Ma’ale Gilboa
Village
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Ma'ale Gilboa is a religious kibbutz located on the summit of Mount Gilboa, on the northeast end of the ridge of the Samarian hills in Israel. Located about 5 km west of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Beit She'an Valley Regional Council.
Faqqua
Village
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Faqqu'a is a village on the northern West Bank, known for its cactus fruits, located along the Green Line on the Gilboa ridge. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 3,490 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 4,410 in 2017, an exclusively Muslim population.
Jalbun
Village
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Jalbun is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 13 km east of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,493 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,813 in 2017. Jalbun is situated 3 km south of Mount Gilboa.
Mount Gilboa
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Mount Gilboa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال جلبوع”
- Basque: “Gilboa”
- Breton: “Menez Gilboa”
- Bulgarian: “Гелвуя”
- Catalan: “Guilboa”
- Chinese: “基利波”
- Czech: “Gilboa”
- Danish: “Gilboa”
- Dutch: “Mount Gilboa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل جبال جلبوع”
- Finnish: “Gilboa”
- French: “mont Guilboa”
- French: “Mont Guilboa”
- German: “Gilboa”
- German: “Mount Gilboa”
- Hebrew: “Haré Gilboa‘”
- Hebrew: “Haré Gilboa”
- Hebrew: “גלבוע”
- Hebrew: “הגלבוע”
- Hebrew: “הר גלבוע”
- Hebrew: “הר הגלבוע”
- Hebrew: “הרי גלבע”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Gilboa”
- Irish: “Sliabh Ghiolbóá”
- Italian: “Gelboe”
- Italian: “Ghilboa”
- Italian: “monte Ghilboa”
- Italian: “Monte Gilboa”
- Italian: “monti di Gelboe”
- Italian: “monti di Ghilboa”
- Japanese: “ギルボア山”
- Korean: “길보아산”
- Ladin: “Mount Gilboa”
- Lithuanian: “Gilboja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gilboafjellet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gilboafjellet”
- Norwegian: “Gilboafjellet”
- Persian: “کوه جلبوع”
- Polish: “Gilboa”
- Portuguese: “Monte Gilboa”
- Romanian: “Muntele Gilboa”
- Russian: “Гелвуй”
- Russian: “Гелвуя”
- Russian: “Гилбоа”
- Russian: “Гилвуй”
- Russian: “Гильбоа”
- Serbian: “Гилбоа”
- Slovenian: “Gilboa”
- Spanish: “Gilboa”
- Swedish: “Gilboa”
- Turkish: “Gilboa Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Гільбоа”
- Ukrainian: “Ґільбоа”
- Venetian: “Monte Ghilboa”
- Vietnamese: “nui gilboa”
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Localities in the Area
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