Kfar Ruth
Kfar Ruth is an Israeli settlement organised as a moshav. It was established in 1977 in an area that had become a no-man's land between Israel and Jordanian-controlled West Bank at the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, before becoming part of the Israeli-occupied territories in the 1967 Six-Day War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Modi’in Center and Ma’arava Yeshiva.
Modi’in Center
Railway station
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Modi'in–Center railway station is an Israel Railways passenger terminal and one of two stations serving Modi'in. It is the terminus of the Nahariya-Modi'in line, with service to the airport, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Akko. Modi’in Center is situated 3 km west of Kfar Ruth.
Ma’arava Yeshiva
Synagogue
Maarava Machon Rubin is an Orthodox yeshiva high school located in the Israeli settlement of Matityahu, near Modi'in, midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lapid and Kfar HaOranim.
Lapid
Village
Lapid is an Israeli community settlement. Located in the Latrun salient of the Green Line near Modi'in Illit, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 2,047.
Kfar HaOranim
Village
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Kfar HaOranim, also known as Menora or Giv'at Ehud, is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Contiguous with Lapid and located near to the major city of Modi'in, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council.
Shilat
Village
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Shilat is a moshav partially in Israel and partially in the Latrun salient of the Green Line. Located around a kilometre north of Modi'in, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council.
Kfar Ruth
- Type: Village with 264 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in the West Bank
- Categories: Israeli settlement, residential area, and locality
- Location: Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.91018° or 31° 54′ 37″ northLongitude
35.03509° or 35° 2′ 6″ eastPopulation
264Elevation
294 metres (965 feet)Open location code
8G3QW26P+32OpenStreetMap ID
way 93325285OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Kfar Ruth” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kfar Rut”
- Czech: “Kefar Rut”
- Czech: “Kfar Rut”
- Dutch: “Kfar Ruth”
- French: “Kfar Ruth”
- Hebrew: “כפר רות” (historical)
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kfar Ruth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kfar Ruth”
- Norwegian: “Kfar Ruth”
- Polish: “Kefar Rut”
- Polish: “Kfar Rut”
- Russian: “Кфар-Рут”
- Swedish: “Kfar Rut”
- Turkish: “Kfar Ruth”
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