Ariel
Ariel is an Israeli settlement in "Area C", within the north-central West Bank. It is approximately 40 km east of Tel-Aviv and 30 km east of Petah Tikva. It is beside the Palestinian town of Salfit.Places of Interest
Highlights include Tomb of Joshua Ben Nun and Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital.
Tomb of Joshua Ben Nun
Place of worship
The Tomb of Joshua, i.e. the burial site of the biblical figure Joshua, and that of his companion Caleb are, according to a Samaritan tradition noted in 1877, at Kifl Haris in the West Bank.
Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital
Hospital
Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital or Salfit Governmental Hospital is a government hospital in the Salfit city, West Bank, Palestine. Followed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital is situated 3½ km south of Ariel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salfit and Kifl Haris.
Salfit
Town
Salfit is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Salfit Governorate. It is located adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Ariel.
Kifl Haris
Village
Kifl Haris is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, located six kilometers west of Salfit and 18 kilometers south of Nablus, in Salfit Governorate, Palestine; it is located northwest of the Israeli settlement of Ariel.
Marda
Village
Marda is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, 18 kilometers southwest of Nablus. A previously important rural and religious center under the Mamluks and Ottomans, it had a population of 2,375 in 2017.
Ariel
- Type: Town with 20,600 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank
- Categories: city, Israeli settlement, and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.1061° or 32° 6′ 22″ north
Longitude
35.1851° or 35° 11′ 7″ east
Population
20,600
Elevation
560 metres (1,837 feet)
Open location code
8G4Q454P+C3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Ariel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أرئيل”
- Arabic: “أريئيل”
- Arabic: “ارئيل”
- Arabic: “اريئيل”
- Arabic: “ارييل”
- Armenian: “Արիել”
- Azerbaijani: “Ariel”
- Basque: “Ariel”
- Bulgarian: “Ариел”
- Catalan: “Ariel”
- Cebuano: “Ariel”
- Central Kurdish: “ئاریئێل”
- Chinese: “阿里埃勒”
- Czech: “Ariel”
- Dutch: “Ariel”
- Dutch: “Ariël”
- Esperanto: “Ariel”
- Finnish: “Ariel”
- French: “Ariel”
- Georgian: “არიელი”
- German: “Ariel”
- Greek: “Αριέλ”
- Hebrew: “אריאל” (historical)
- Hindi: “अरियेल”
- Indonesian: “Ariel”
- Italian: “Ariel”
- Japanese: “アリエル”
- Korean: “아리엘”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Busetjinga Ariel”
- Persian: “آریل”
- Persian: “اریل”
- Polish: “Ari’el”
- Polish: “Ariel”
- Portuguese: “Ariel”
- Russian: “Ариэль”
- Serbian: “Аријел (град)”
- Serbian: “Аријел”
- Slovenian: “Ariel”
- Spanish: “Ariel”
- Swedish: “Ariel”
- Tagalog: “Ariel”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Ariel”
- Turkish: “Ariel”
- Ukrainian: “Арієль”
- Urdu: “اریئیل (شہر)”
- Urdu: “اریئیل”
- Vietnamese: “Ariel, Bờ Tây”
- Vietnamese: “Ariel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ariel (syudad)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ariel”
- Welsh: “Ariel (Dinas)”
- Welsh: “Ariel, Iddewig”
- Welsh: “Ariel, Israel”
- Welsh: “Ariel”
- Welsh: “dinas Ariel”
- Welsh: “Dinas Ariel”
- Welsh: “trefedigaeth Ariel”
- Welsh: “trefnlan Ariel”
- Yiddish: “אריאל”
- “Ariel”
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