Bar Yehuda Airfield

Bar Yehuda Airfield, named after Yisrael Bar-Yehuda, is a small desert airfield located in the southern , between and , west of the .
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airfield located in the southern Judean desert
  • Also known as: “I.Bar-Yehuda Airport”, “LLMZ”, and “MTZ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Masada and The Synagogue.

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is a magnificently located fortress site in stark , close to the . The last Jewish holdout to fall to Rome in 73 CE, symbolizes the exile of the Jewish nation from the Holy Land.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Bar Yehuda Airfield

Latitude
31.32851° or 31° 19′ 43″ north
Longitude
35.38824° or 35° 23′ 18″ east
Elevation
-379 metres (-1,243 feet)
IATA airport code
MTZ
ICAO airport code
LLMZ
Open location code
8G3Q89HQ+C7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 156572636
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
7668323
Wiki­data ID
Q1934910
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bar Yehuda Airfield” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مطار بر يهودا”
  • Cebuano: “Bar Yehuda Airfield”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مطار بار يهودا”
  • French: “Aérodrome de Bar Yehuda”
  • Hebrew: “minḥat bar-yehuda”
  • Hebrew: “מנחת בר-יהודה”
  • Hebrew: “מנחת בר־יהודה”
  • Hebrew: “מנחת מצדה”
  • Indonesian: “Lapangan Terbang Bar Yehuda”
  • Indonesian: “LLMZ”
  • Indonesian: “MTZ”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang I.Bar-Yehuda”
  • Persian: “LLMZ”
  • Persian: “MTZ”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه صحرایی بار یهودا”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Bar Jehuda”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Bar Yehuda”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto Bar Yehuda”
  • Russian: “Аэродром Бар-Йехуда”
  • Russian: “Бар-Йехуда”
  • Swedish: “Bar Yehuda Airfield”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи саҳро бор иҳудо”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay Bar Yehuda”

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