Shoham
Shoham is a town in the Central District of Israel. The name relates to one of the 12 stones on the Hoshen, the sacred breastplate worn by a Jewish high priest, similar to other nearby towns: Nofekh, Bareket, Leshem and Ahlama.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shoham Forest Park and Logistics corps Memorial.
Logistics corps Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Avi1111, Public domain.
Logistics corps Memorial is situated 3½ km south of Shoham.
Egrof veRomach memorial
Memorial
Photo: Shayshal2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Egrof veRomach memorial is situated 4 km north of Shoham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beit Arif and Bareket.
Beit Arif
Village
Photo: Yitzchakm2, CC0.
Beit Arif is a moshav in the Central District of Israel. Located adjacent to the town of Shoham, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,135.
Bareket
Village
Photo: Elhananha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bareket is a religious Zionist moshav in the Central District of Israel. Located near the town of Shoham and the Judean Foothills, around five kilometres north-east of Ben Gurion International Airport and covering 2,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council.
Tirat Yehuda
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tirat Yehuda is a national religious moshav in the Central District of Israel. Located near Shoham, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,259.
Shoham
- Type: Town with 21,000 residents
- Description: local council in Israel
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Central District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.00049° or 32° 0′ 2″ northLongitude
34.94654° or 34° 56′ 48″ eastPopulation
21,000Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)United Nations Location Code
IL SAMOpen location code
8G4P2W2W+5JOpenStreetMap ID
node 333111665OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Shoham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شوهام”
- Chinese: “索哈姆”
- Czech: “Šoham”
- Dutch: “Shoham”
- Dutch: “Sjoham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شوهام”
- Finnish: “Shoham”
- French: “Shoham”
- German: “Schoham”
- Hebrew: “שהם”
- Hebrew: “שוהם”
- Irish: “Shoham”
- Italian: “Shoham”
- Japanese: “ショハム”
- Mongolian: “Шохам”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shoham”
- Persian: “شوهام، منطقه مسکونی”
- Polish: “Szoham”
- Russian: “Шохам”
- Scots: “Shoham”
- Silesian: “Szoham”
- Turkish: “Şoham”
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