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Shfelah
Jerusalem District

Beit Shemesh

Beit Shemesh is a city in the Shfela region of , with a population of 119,000. Excluding the , Beit Shemesh is the closest city to .
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  • Type: Town with 79,000 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Beit-Shemesh”, “Bet Shemesh”, and “Maabarat Hartuv”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beit Shemesh Railway Station and Biblical Museum of Natural History.

Railway station
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is an Israel Railways station in Beit Shemesh, , on the –– line. The station is located near the northern industrial zone of Beit Shemesh.

Museum
The , currently located in at the entrance to Beit Shemesh, , was founded in 2014 by Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin, affectionately referred to as the "Zoo Rabbi."…

Archaeological site
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is a small archaeological tell northeast of the modern city of Beit Shemesh. It was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh – it then was known as Ain Shams – by Edward Robinson.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zanoah and Tzora.

Village
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is a moshav in central . Located adjacent to Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 515.

Village
is a kibbutz in central . Located about 20 km from , near the city of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 915.

Village
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Yish'i is a moshav in central . Located near Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 920.

Beit Shemesh

Latitude
31.7462° or 31° 44′ 46″ north
Longitude
34.9887° or 34° 59′ 19″ east
Population
79,000
Elevation
282 metres (925 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL BSE
Open location code
8G3PPXWQ+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316019781
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
295432
Wiki­data ID
Q152449
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Beit Shemesh” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Arabic: “بيت شيمش”
  • Armenian: “Բեյթ Շեմեշ”
  • Asturian: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Basque: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Belarusian: “Бейт-Шэмеш”
  • Bulgarian: “Бейт Шемеш”
  • Catalan: “Bait Shemesh”
  • Catalan: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Catalan: “Betxèmeix”
  • Cebuano: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Chechen: “Бейт-Шемеш”
  • Chinese: “貝特謝梅什”
  • Chinese: “贝特谢梅什”
  • Croatian: “Bejt Šemeš”
  • Czech: “Bejt Šemeš”
  • Czech: “Bet Šemeš”
  • Dutch: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Dutch: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Dutch: “Beth Shemesh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيت شيمش”
  • Esperanto: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Esperanto: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Finnish: “Bet Shemesh”
  • French: “Beit Shemesh”
  • French: “Beït-Shemesh”
  • French: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Georgian: “ბეით შემეში”
  • Georgian: “ბეით-შემეში”
  • German: “Beit Schemesch”
  • German: “Beit Shemesh”
  • German: “Bet Schemesch”
  • German: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Greek: “Βαιθσαμυς”
  • Greek: “Μπέιτ Σεμές”
  • Hebrew: “בית שמש”
  • Hebrew: “מעברת הרטוב”
  • Hebrew: “רמת בית שמש”
  • Hindi: “बेथ शेमेश”
  • Hungarian: “Bét Semes”
  • Indonesian: “Bet-Semes”
  • Irish: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Italian: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Japanese: “ベト・シェメシュ”
  • Javanese: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Korean: “베이트 셰메시”
  • Korean: “베이트셰메시”
  • Ladino: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Norwegian: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Persian: “بیت شمش”
  • Polish: “Beit Szemesz”
  • Polish: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Polish: “Bet Szemesz”
  • Portuguese: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Portuguese: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Portuguese: “Bete-Semes”
  • Romanian: “Beit şemeş”
  • Romanian: “Beit Şemeș”
  • Romanian: “Beit Șemeș”
  • Russian: “Бейт-Шемеш”
  • Russian: “Бет-Шемеш”
  • Russian: “Вефсамис”
  • Scots: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Serbian: “Bet Schemesch”
  • Serbian: “Bet Šemeš”
  • Serbian: “Бет Шемеш”
  • Serbian: “בית שמש”
  • Spanish: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Spanish: “Bet shemesh”
  • Spanish: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Swahili: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Swedish: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Swedish: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Tagalog: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Turkish: “Beyt Şemeş”
  • Ukrainian: “Бейт-Шемеш”
  • Ukrainian: “Бет-Шемеш”
  • Urdu: “بیت شمس”
  • Venetian: “Bet Shemesh”
  • Vietnamese: “Beit Shemesh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beit Shemesh”
  • Yiddish: “בית שמש”

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