Modi’in Illit
Modi'in Illit is a Haredi Jewish-Israeli settlement organized as a city council in the West Bank, situated midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Built on the land of five Palestinian villages–Ni'lin, Kharbata, Saffa, Bil'in, and Dir Qadis–Modi'in Illit was granted city status by the Israeli government in 2008.Photo: Dvirraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 47,700 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in the West Bank
- Also known as: “Kiryat Sefer”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ma’arava Yeshiva and Khirbet Badd Isa.
Ma’arava Yeshiva
Synagogue
Khirbet Badd Isa
Ruins
Photo: אשר1234567890, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khirbet Bad 'Issa or Khirbet Bad-'Issa is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, within Modi'in Illit. Archaeological evidence suggests that the site was founded in the 3rd century BCE, during the Hellenistic period, as a seasonal agricultural settlement.
Khirbet Abu ed-Dinein
Ruins
Khirbet Abu ad-Danin, Horvat Abu a-Danin or Kh. Abu ed-Dinein is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, just south of Modi'in Illit. The site represents a rural Jewish village from the late Second Temple period, founded in the 2nd century BCE and reaching its peak during the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Modi’in and Ni’lin.
Modi’in
Photo: Righteos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Modi'in is a relatively new Israeli city located in the Shfela, halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. There are some archaeological sites in the city as well as popular tourist attractions nearby.
Ni’lin
Village
Photo: Daboos hassan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ni'lin is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank, located 17 kilometers west of Ramallah.
Hashmonaim
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hashmonaim is an Israeli settlement located in the western section of the West Bank, off Route 443. Hashmonaim is located two kilometers east of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and is part of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council.
Modi’in Illit
- Categories: city, Israeli settlement, and locality
- Location: Jerusalem District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.9324° or 31° 55′ 57″ northLongitude
35.0433° or 35° 2′ 36″ eastPopulation
47,700Elevation
280 metres (919 feet)Open location code
8G3QW2JV+X8OpenStreetMap ID
node 432287759OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
8199378Wikidata ID
Q168140
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Modi’in Illit” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “موديعين عيليت”
- Armenian: “Մոդիին Իլիթ”
- Asturian: “Modi’in Illit”
- Basque: “Modi’in Illit”
- Catalan: “Modi’in Illit”
- Catalan: “Modiín Il·lit”
- Cebuano: “Modiin Ilit”
- Chinese: “上莫迪因”
- Chinese: “莫迪因伊利特”
- Czech: “Modi’in Ilit”
- Czech: “Modi’in Illit”
- Dutch: “Modi’in Illit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موديعين عيليت”
- Esperanto: “Modi’in Illit”
- Finnish: “Modi’in Illit”
- Finnish: “Modiin Ilit”
- French: “Brachfeld”
- French: “Kiryat sefer”
- French: “Modi’in Illit”
- French: “Modiin Illit”
- Galician: “Criptograma”
- German: “Kirjat Sefer”
- German: “Modi’in Ilit”
- German: “Modi’in Illit”
- German: “Modiin Illit”
- German: “Modiʿin Illit”
- Greek: “Μοντιίν Ιλίτ”
- Hebrew: “מודיעין עילית” (historical)
- Hebrew: “מודיעין עלית”
- Hebrew: “קריית ספר”
- Hebrew: “קרית ספר”
- Indonesian: “Modi’in Illit”
- Italian: “Modi’in Illit”
- Japanese: “モディイン・イリット”
- Korean: “모디인일리트”
- Manx: “Modi’in Illit”
- Mingrelian: “მოდიინ-ილითი”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Modi’in Illit”
- Persian: “مودیعین عیلیت”
- Polish: “Modi’in Illit”
- Portuguese: “Modi’in Illit”
- Russian: “Модиин Илит”
- Russian: “Модиин-Илит”
- Spanish: “Modi’in Illit”
- Spanish: “Modiin Illit”
- Swedish: “Modi’in Illit”
- Turkish: “Modi’in İllit”
- Ukrainian: “Модіін-Іліт”
- Ukrainian: “Модіїн-Іліт”
- Urdu: “مودیعین عیلیت”
- Vietnamese: “Modi’in Illit”
- Yiddish: “מודיעין עילית”
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