Bi’ina
Bi'ina is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel. It is located east of Acre. In 2003, Bi'ina merged with Majd al-Krum and Deir al-Asad to form the city of Shaghur, but was reinstated as a local council in 2008 after Shaghur was dissolved.- Type: Village with 8,380 residents
- Description: local council in Israel’s Northern District, with Muslim Arab and Bedouin population
- Also known as: “Al Bi‘na”, “Al-Bi’ina”, “al-Bi’na”, “Al-Binah”, “Bi‘na”, “Bi’na”, “Bi‘nah”, and “el-Baneh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karmiel and Khirbet Mehoz.
Karmiel
Railway station
Photo: Itaygur, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Karmiel railway station is an Israel Railways passenger terminal in Karmiel, Israel. It is located at the eastern terminus of the Railway to Karmiel.
Khirbet Mehoz
Ruins
Photo: Hoshvilim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khirbet Mehoz is a ruins, which is situated 2½ km north of Bi’ina.
Horvat Tefen
Archaeological site
Horvat Tefen or Qal'at et-Tufaniya, alternatively Tefen Fortress, is an archaeological site in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel. Located on a mountain ridge approximately 16 kilometres from the coastal city of Acre, the site contains the remains of a short-lived hilltop fort dating to the early 1st century BCE. Horvat Tefen is situated 3 km northwest of Bi’ina.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deir al-Asad and Majd al-Krum.
Deir al-Asad
Village
Photo: Asadi Bendel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Deir al-Asad is an Arab village in the Galilee region of Israel, near Karmiel. Together with the adjacent village of Bi'ina it formed the site of the Crusader monastery town of St.
Majd al-Krum
Village
Photo: Al Ameer son, Public domain.
Majd al-Krum is an Arab town located in the Galilee in Israel's Northern District about 16 kilometers east of Acre. Its inhabitants are primarily Muslim.
Lavon
Village
Lavon is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee four kilometres north of Karmiel, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 884.
Bi’ina
- Categories: local council in Israel, residential area, and locality
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.92797° or 32° 55′ 41″ northLongitude
35.27163° or 35° 16′ 18″ eastPopulation
8,380Elevation
321 metres (1,053 feet)Open location code
8G4QW7HC+5MOpenStreetMap ID
way 614173564OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Bi’ina” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “البعنة”
- Arabic: “البعنه”
- Arabic: “بعنة”
- Catalan: “Bi’ina”
- Czech: “Bi’ina”
- Czech: “Bi’ne”
- Czech: “Biina”
- Czech: “Bine”
- Dutch: “Bi’ina”
- Egyptian Arabic: “البعنه”
- Hebrew: “Bi’ena”
- Hebrew: “Bi’na”
- Hebrew: “אל-בענה”
- Hebrew: “ביענה”
- Hebrew: “בענה”
- Italian: “Bi’ina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bi’ina”
- Polish: “Bi’ina”
- Polish: “Bina”
- Russian: “Бина”
- Turkish: “Bi’ina”
- Urdu: “بعنہ”
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