Shekhanya
Shekhanya is a community settlement in northern Israel. It is named after a priest family from the Bible. Located in the Galilee between Karmiel and Shefar'am, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 727.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Almog, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Har Shekhanya and Mount Atzmon.
Mount Atzmon
Peak
Mount Atzmon is the modern Israeli name of a mountain in the Northern District of Israel, identified by some with the ancient Mount Atzmon. Its Arabic name is Jebel Didiba or Jebel Didbeh. Mount Atzmon is situated 3½ km southeast of Shekhanya.
בי’ס על יסודי משגב 1
School building
Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
בי’ס על יסודי משגב 1 is a school building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Koranit and Manof.
Koranit
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Koranit is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee on Mount Shekhanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 883.
Manof
Village
Photo: Almog, Public domain.
Manof is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located on Mount Shekhanya in the Lower Galilee, about 30 km northeast of Haifa and at an average elevation is 382 meters above sea level, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council.
Rakefet
Village
Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rakefet is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Lower Galilee near Sakhnin, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 970.
Shekhanya
- Type: Village with 814 residents
- Description: human settlement in Israel
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.84873° or 32° 50′ 55″ northLongitude
35.24698° or 35° 14′ 49″ eastPopulation
814Elevation
452 metres (1,483 feet)Open location code
8G4QR6XW+FQOpenStreetMap ID
node 278474128OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
386232Wikidata ID
Q2890298
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Turkish—“Shekhanya” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Šechanija”
- Czech: “Šechanja”
- Czech: “Shekhanya”
- Dutch: “Shekhanya”
- French: “Shekhanya”
- Hebrew: “שכניה”
- Irish: “Shekhanya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shekhanya”
- Polish: “Shekhanya”
- Polish: “Szechanija”
- Polish: “Szechanja”
- Turkish: “Şekhanya”
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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 “Shekhanya”. Photo: Almog, Public domain.