Middle East
Israel
Southern District

Meitar

Meitar is a small local council north-east of , in 's . The town lies on Highway 60 just south of the Green Line on the southern edge of Mount Hebron, alongside the .
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  • Type: Town with 9,420 residents
  • Description: local council in Israel
  • Also known as: “Metar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hirbet Salit and Tel Shoqet.

Ruins
Photo: Aaadir, CC0.
is a ruins.

Archaeological site
Photo: Aaadir, CC0.
Tel Shoket is an Israeli tell or archaeological hill in the north of the . It is located adjacent to Highway 60, between the Meitar Interchange and Meitar. is situated 3½ km southwest of Meitar.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kramim and Hura.

Village
Photo: Oyoyoy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a kibbutz in southern . Located around a kilometer west of Meitar, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 591.

Town
Photo: ConstantinetheGreat, CC BY 3.0.
, or Houra is a Bedouin town in the of . It is located near and beside the town Meitar. The town was established in 1989 as a part of solution offered by the state for the consolidation of Negev Bedouin population, and was declared a local council in 1996. is situated 3 km south of Meitar.

Village
Carmit is a community settlement in the northern desert in , within the jurisdiction of Meitar located near forest. is situated 4 km west of Meitar.

Meitar

Latitude
31.32709° or 31° 19′ 38″ north
Longitude
34.93844° or 34° 56′ 18″ east
Population
9,420
Elevation
420 metres (1,378 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL MTR
Open location code
8G3P8WGQ+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 536507510
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8062538
Wiki­data ID
Q1246119
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Meitar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميتار”
  • Basque: “Meitar”
  • Bosnian: “Meitar”
  • Catalan: “Metar”
  • Croatian: “Meitar”
  • Czech: “Mejtar”
  • Dutch: “Meitar”
  • Finnish: “Meitar”
  • French: “Meitar”
  • Georgian: “მეითარ”
  • German: “Meitar”
  • Hebrew: “מיתר”
  • Hebrew: “מֵיתָר”
  • Italian: “Meitar”
  • Japanese: “メタル (イスラエル)”
  • Japanese: “メタル”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meitar”
  • Persian: “میتار”
  • Polish: “Meitar”
  • Polish: “Metar”
  • Russian: “Мейтар”
  • Spanish: “Meitar”
  • Turkish: “Meitar”

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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 “Meitar”. Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 3.0.