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 2024 it had a population of 1,140.- Type: Village with 1,510 residents
- Description: kibbutz in Israel
- Also known as: “Afiqim” and “Kibbutz Afikim”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El `Ubeidiya and Samakh.
El `Ubeidiya
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, 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 2024 it had a population of 876.
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.
Degania Bet
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Degania Bet is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located to the south of the Sea of Galilee adjacent to Degania Alef, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. Degania Bet was established in 1920. As of 2024, it had a population of 765.
Afikim
- Categories: kibbutz and locality
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.68137° or 32° 40′ 53″ northLongitude
35.57833° or 35° 34′ 42″ eastPopulation
1,510Elevation
-197 metres (-646 feet)Open location code
8G4QMHJH+G8OpenStreetMap ID
node 278474378OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
295743Wikidata ID
Q383280
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Satellite Map
Discover Afikim from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“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”
- Russian: “Афиким”
- Spanish: “Afikim”
- Swedish: “Afiqim”
- Turkish: “Afikim”
- Ukrainian: “Афікім”
- Urdu: “افیکیم”
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