Yamit

Yamit was an Israeli settlement in the northern part of the with a population of about 2,500 people. Yamit was established during Israel's occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six-Day War until that part of the Sinai was handed over to in April 1982, as part of the terms of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
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  • Ruin
  • …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (60 feet)
  • Description: former Israeli settlement on the occupied Sinai

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Locality
was a Palestinian refugee camp in the…
7 km east of Yamit
Town
is a Bedouin town in the…
9 km southwest of Yamit
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Latitude
31.27544° or 31° 16′ 32″ north
Longitude
34.1679° or 34° 10′ 4″ east
Open location code
8G3P75G9+55
Geo­Names ID
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Yamit” goes by many names.
ياميتArabic
ЯмитBulgarian
JamitCzech
YamitCzech
YamitDutch
ΓιαμίτGreek
ימיתHebrew
ימית (עיר)Hebrew
YamitIndonesian
YamitItalian
ヤミットJapanese
YamitNorwegian
YamitNorwegian Bokmål
شهرک یامیتPersian
یامیتPersian
ЯмитRussian
یامیتSouth Azerbaijani
YamitSwedish
JamitUpper Sorbian
یمیتUrdu

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