Yonatan
Yonatan is an Israeli settlement and moshav located in the central Golan Heights. Initially a moshav shitufi, it underwent a privatization process to become a community settlement.- Type: Village with 745 residents
- Description: moshav in Golan Heights
- Also known as: “Yonatan, Golan Heights”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rujm el-Hiri.
Rujm el-Hiri
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rujm el-Hiri or Gilgal Refaim, and also known as the Wheel of Giants, is an ancient stone, or megalithic, structure consisting of concentric circles of stone with a tumulus, a mound of earth and stone, at its center. Rujm el-Hiri is situated 3½ km south of Yonatan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keshet and Aniam.
Keshet
Village
Photo: yanshoof, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Keshet is an Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights, organized as a moshav shitufi. It was established in 1974 after the Yom Kippur War by young activists near the Syrian city of Quneitra, which had been occupied and subsequently razed to the ground in the Six-Day War. Keshet is situated 5 km north of Yonatan.
Aniam
Village
Yonatan
- Categories: moshav, Israeli settlement, and locality
- Location: Quneitra Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.93847° or 32° 56′ 19″ northLongitude
35.79496° or 35° 47′ 42″ eastPopulation
745Elevation
582 metres (1,909 feet)Open location code
8G4QWQQV+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 6767259739OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
443111Wikidata ID
Q2910012
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Vietnamese—“Yonatan” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Jonatan”
- Czech: “Yonatan”
- French: “Yonatan”
- Hebrew: “יונתן”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yonatan i Golanhøgdene”
- Russian: “Йонатан (мошав)”
- Russian: “Йонатан”
- Turkish: “Yonatan (Golan Tepeleri)”
- Urdu: “یوناتان، گولان ہائٹس”
- Vietnamese: “Yonatan, Golan Heights”
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