Umm Lasafa
Umm Lasafa is a Palestinian village in the Hebron Governorate, located southeast of Yatta, in the southern West Bank.Photo: Akram Abuhmeed, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Locality with 840 residents
- Description: village
- Also known as: “Abu Shabban”, “Khirbat Um Laṣafa”, “Khirbat Umm Lasafa”, “Khirbat Umm Laşafā”, “Umm Laşafā”, and “أم لصفا”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ar-Rifa’iyya and Tell Maon.
Ar-Rifa’iyya
Residential area
Ar-Rifa'iyya, is a Palestinian village in the Hebron Governorate, located east of the city of Yatta and south of the city of Hebron in the West Bank, and within the lands occupied after the 1967 war.
Tell Maon
Archaeological site
Khirbet Ma'in or Tell Máîn, i.e. 'Ma'in Ruins/Tell of Ma'in', or Horvat Maon/H. Ma'on, is an archaeological site in the Hebron Hills, West Bank, rising 863 metres above sea level, where the remains of the ancient town of Ma'on have been excavated. Tell Maon is situated 3½ km southwest of Umm Lasafa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khallet al-Maiya and Ad Deirat.
Khallet al-Maiya
Village
Khalet al-Maiyya خلة المية is a Palestinian village located nine kilometers south of Hebron and four kilometers west of Yatta. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank.
Ad Deirat
Village
Ad-Deirat, is a village on the outskirts of Yatta in the Palestinian Hebron Governorate. It is part of the Khalet al-Maiyya village cluster, 11 km to the southeast of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank. It was occupied in 1967.
Ma’on
Village
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ma'on is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav shitufi in the West Bank. Located in the Judean Hills south of Hebron and north of Beersheba, it falls under the jurisdiction of Har Hevron Regional Council. Ma’on is situated 2½ km south of Umm Lasafa.
Umm Lasafa
- Categories: human settlement and village
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Hebrew—“Umm Lasafa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أم لصفا”
- Arabic: “أم لصفة”
- Arabic: “ابو شبان”
- Cebuano: “Umm Laşafā”
- Dutch: “Umm Laşafā”
- Hebrew: “אבו שבאן”
- Hebrew: “אום אלצאפה”
- Hebrew: “אום לספה”
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