Afikim
Afikim is an Israeli kibbutz affiliated with the Kibbutz Movement located in the Jordan Valley three kilometers from the Sea of Galilee. It is within the jurisdiction of the Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,105.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,510 residents
- Description: kibbutz in Israel
- Also known as: “Kibbutz Afikim”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El `Ubeidiya and Samakh.
El `Ubeidiya
Ruins
Photo: Davidbena, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ubeidiya, some 3 km south of the Sea of Galilee, in the Jordan Rift Valley, Israel, is an archaeological site of the early Pleistocene, c. 1.5 million years ago, preserving traces of one of the earliest migrations of Homo erectus out of Africa, with only the site of Dmanisi in Georgia being older.
Samakh
Ruins
Photo: אסף.צ, Public domain.
Samakh was a Palestinian Arab village at the south end of Lake Tiberias in Ottoman Galilee and later Mandatory Palestine. It was the site of battle in 1918 during World War I.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beit Zera and Masada.
Beit Zera
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beit Zera is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. As of 2023 it had a population of 756.
Masada
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Masada is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the northern Jordan Valley near the Sea of Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council.
Ashdot Ya’akov Meuhad
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ashdot Ya'akov Meuhad is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located to the south of the Sea of Galilee near the Jordanian border and covering 4,300 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 903.
Afikim
- Categories: kibbutz, residential area, and locality
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.68053° or 32° 40′ 50″ northLongitude
35.57679° or 35° 34′ 36″ eastPopulation
1,510Elevation
-197 metres (-646 feet)Open location code
8G4QMHJG+6POpenStreetMap ID
way 642173362OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Afikim” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Afikim”
- Cebuano: “Afiqim”
- Czech: “Afikim”
- Dutch: “Afikim”
- French: “Afikim”
- German: “Afikim”
- German: “Afiqim”
- Hebrew: “אפיקים”
- Hebrew: “אֲפִיקִים”
- Irish: “Afikim”
- Japanese: “アフィキム”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afikim”
- Persian: “آفیکیم”
- Polish: “Afikim”
- Spanish: “Afikim”
- Swedish: “Afiqim”
- Turkish: “Afikim”
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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 “Afikim”. Photo: Bienchido, CC BY-SA 3.0.