Dan
Dan is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the north of the Hula Valley, at the foot of Mount Hermon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. As of 2023 it had a population of 859.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Guzsbhtk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 705 residents
- Description: kibbutz in Upper Galilee, Israel
- Also known as: “Dan, Israel”, “Metsudat Menahem Ussishkin Bet”, and “Tell el Qady”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beit Ussishkin Museum and Tel Azaziat.
Tel Azaziat
Peak
Photo: Chaver83, Public domain.
Tel Azaziat is a hill in the foothills of the Golan Heights in northern Israel, 330 m above sea level, 1.5 km east of moshav She'ar Yashuv, 1.5 km south east of kibbutz Dan and 2 km west of Tel Faher.
Banias
Photo: israeltourism, CC BY 2.0.
Banias, also spelled Banyas, is a site in the Golan Heights near a natural spring, once associated with the Greek god Pan. It had been inhabited for 2,000 years, until its Syrian population fled and their homes were destroyed by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. Banias is situated 4 km east of Dan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include She’ar Yashuv and Dafna.
She’ar Yashuv
Village
Photo: דג בלי מלח, CC BY-SA 4.0.
She'ar Yashuv is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Upper Galilee in the northeastern Hula Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council.
Dafna
Village
Photo: LittleGun, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dafna is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Located seven kilometres east of Kiryat Shmona and surrounded by three streams of the Dan River, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council.
Snir
Village
Photo: Chaver83, Public domain.
Snir is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Hula Valley near Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 749.
Dan
- Categories: kibbutz and locality
- Location: Quneitra Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.24009° or 33° 14′ 24″ northLongitude
35.65309° or 35° 39′ 11″ eastPopulation
705Elevation
174 metres (571 feet)Inception
1939United Nations Location Code
IL DANOpen location code
8G5Q6MR3+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 278474014OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
295357Wikidata ID
Q991372
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Dan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دان”
- Czech: “Dan”
- Dutch: “Dan”
- French: “Dan”
- German: “Dan”
- German: “Kibbuz Dan”
- Hebrew: “דן”
- Hebrew: “קיבוץ דן”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dan i Israel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dan i Israel”
- Norwegian: “Dan”
- Polish: “Dan”
- Portuguese: “Dã”
- Portuguese: “Dan, Israel”
- Portuguese: “Dan”
- Russian: “Дан”
- Spanish: “Dan”
- Turkish: “Dan”
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