Geva Binyamin
Geva Binyamin, also known as Adam, is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, built over land expropriated from the Palestinian village of Jaba'. It is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 5,530 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement on the occupied Palestinian West Bank
- Also known as: “Adam” and “Adam Settlement (Geva Binyamin)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Qubur Bani Isra’il and Shaar Binyamin.
Qubur Bani Isra’il
Archaeological site
Photo: Chesdovi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qubur Bene Isra'in or Qubur Bani Isra'il, are four, formerly five, huge stone structures dated to the Middle Bronze Age, which rise from a rocky plateau overlooking Wadi Qelt in the West Bank, about 3.5 miles northeast of Jerusalem, between Hizma and Geva Binyamin along Highway 437.
Shaar Binyamin
Police station
Photo: Atefrat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sha'ar Binyamin is an Israeli light industrial park in the occupied West Bank, built in 1998 over land expropriated from the Palestinian villages of Jaba' and Mukhmas.
Khirbet Almit
Peak
Khirbet Almit is an archaeological site in the West Bank, occupied from the Middle Bronze Age to the Ottoman period. It is located in the Judaean Desert about 4 km northeast of Mount Scopus and about 1.5 km northeast of 'Anata. Khirbet Almit is situated 3 km south of Geva Binyamin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jaba’ and Hizma.
Jaba’
Village
Jaba’ is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate of the State of Palestine, located northeast of Jerusalem in the central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 3,921 in 2017.
Hizma
Village
Photo: Dvirraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hizma is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate, seven kilometers from Jerusalem's Old City. The town, mostly located in Area C of the West Bank, borders four Israeli settlements, Neve Yaakov and Pisgat Ze'ev, Geva Binyamin and Almon.
Mukhmas
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mukhmas is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate, located northeast of Jerusalem, in the center of the West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,363 in 2017.
Geva Binyamin
- Categories: Israeli settlement, community settlement, and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.85033° or 31° 51′ 1″ northLongitude
35.27398° or 35° 16′ 26″ eastPopulation
5,530Elevation
644 metres (2,113 feet)Open location code
8G3QV72F+4HOpenStreetMap ID
node 604502737OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11979646Wikidata ID
Q2890575
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Geva Binyamin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آدم”
- Arabic: “مستوطنة آدم (جڨع بنيامين)”
- Arabic: “مستوطنة آدم”
- Czech: “Geva Binjamin”
- Czech: “Geva Binyamin”
- French: “Adam (Geva Binyamin)”
- Hebrew: “גבע בנימין (אדם)”
- Hebrew: “גבע בנימין”
- Hebrew: “גֶּבַע בִּנְיָמִין”
- Hebrew: “יישוב אדם”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Geva Binyamin”
- Persian: “گوا بنیامین”
- Polish: “Geva Binjamin”
- Polish: “Geva Binyamin”
- Polish: “Gewa Binjamin”
- Russian: “Гева-Биньямин”
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