Port of Eilat
The Port of Eilat was the only Israeli port on the Red Sea, located at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. This strategic location has given it outsized importance despite being remote from the country's main population centers, and access to the port has played a key role in Arab-Israeli conflicts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Port
- Description: port in Israel
- Also known as: “Nemal Elat” and “Port Eilat”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dolphin Reef and Yoseftal hospital.
Dolphin Reef
Park
Photo: טל שמע, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Dolphins Reef is a tourist attraction in Eilat, Israel. It advertises the following activities that they claim focus mainly on dolphins and conserving them -Swimming with dolphins, diving lessons, guided tours, lectures and workshops and an information centre. Dolphin Reef is situated 1 km southwest of Port of Eilat.
Yoseftal hospital
Hospital
Yoseftal Medical Center is a hospital in Eilat, Israel. Yoseftal Hospital, founded in 1968, is the southernmost hospital in Israel and the only hospital covering the southern Negev desert. Yoseftal hospital is situated 2½ km north of Port of Eilat.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eilat and Eilot.
Eilat
Photo: Chris Yunker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eilat is the only Israeli city on the Red Sea. Eilat is the southernmost town in Israel, isolated from the rest of the country by the Negev desert. It's sandwiched between Taba in Egypt and Aqaba in Jordan, and often used as an access route to those cities because of its large modern Ramon airport.
Eilot
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Eilot is the southernmost kibbutz in Israel. It is located in the Aravah Valley, near the border with Jordan. Eilot is less than a kilometer north of Eilat, and just over 3 kilometers north of the Red Sea. Eilot is situated 6 km north of Port of Eilat.
Aqaba
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aqaba is Jordan's only port city. It is on the Gulf of Aqaba in the extreme south of the country, adjacent to Eilat in Israel.
Port of Eilat
- Categories: port and transportation
- Location: Southern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Port of Eilat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميناء إيلات”
- Asturian: “puertu d’Eilat”
- Asturian: “Puertu d’Eilat”
- Bengali: “ইয়ালাত বন্দর”
- Catalan: “Port d’Elat”
- Cebuano: “Nemal Elat”
- Central Kurdish: “بەندەری ئیلات”
- Chinese: “埃拉特港”
- Czech: “Eilat Port”
- Czech: “ejlatský přístav”
- Czech: “Ejlatský přístav”
- Czech: “přístav Ejlat”
- Czech: “přístav v Ejlatu”
- Esperanto: “Haveno de Ejlato”
- French: “port d’Eilat”
- French: “Port d’Eilat”
- Hebrew: “נמל אילת”
- Korean: “에일랏항”
- Lithuanian: “Elato uostas”
- Persian: “بندر ایلات”
- Polish: “Port Ejlat”
- Portuguese: “Porto de Eilat”
- Romanian: “Portul Eilat”
- Russian: “Порт Эйлата”
- Russian: “Эйлат”
- Spanish: “Puerto de Eilat”
- Swedish: “Nemal Elat”
- Yiddish: “אילת פארט”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Port of Eilat”. Photo: Adiel lo, CC BY-SA 3.0.