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Ma’ale Adumim

Maale Adumim is an Israeli settlement in the , east of . It has about 37,000 residents.
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  • Type: Town with 32,000 residents
  • Description: Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank
  • Also known as: “Maale Adumim”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monastery of Martyrius and Yeshivat Birkat Moshe.

Archaeological site
, whose ruins, known as Khirbet el-Murassas in Arabic, have been excavated in the centre of the settlement and city of Ma'ale Adumim, was one of the most important centres of monastic life in the Judean Desert during the Byzantine period.

School
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is a hesder yeshiva located in the Mitzpeh Nevo neighborhood of the Israeli settlement, Ma'ale Adumim. It was founded in 1977 by Haim Sabato and Yitzchak Sheilat, then two young rabbis from Yeshivat HaKotel, in Jerusalem.

Memorial
Photo: Sam Philipe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Jerusalem and Old City.

Photo: Papierdrache, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.

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The of Jerusalem is that part of surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.

Town
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Bethany, locally called in Arabic or al-Aizariya, is a Palestinian town in the of , bordering , in the . is situated 3½ km west of Ma’ale Adumim.

Ma’ale Adumim

Latitude
31.7706° or 31° 46′ 14″ north
Longitude
35.2987° or 35° 17′ 56″ east
Population
32,000
Elevation
715 metres (2,346 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ7CX+6F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 282405648
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
11670381
Wiki­data ID
Q502272
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Ma’ale Adumim” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “معالي أدوميم”
  • Arabic: “معالي ادوميم”
  • Arabic: “معاليه أدوميم”
  • Arabic: “معاليه ادوميم”
  • Armenian: “Մաալե Ադումիմ”
  • Asturian: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Basque: “Maale Adumin”
  • Catalan: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Chinese: “馬阿勒阿杜明”
  • Chinese: “马阿勒阿杜明”
  • Czech: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Danish: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Dutch: “Ma’ale Adoemim”
  • Dutch: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Dutch: “Ma’ale Adummim”
  • Dutch: “Ma’Aleh Adumim”
  • Dutch: “Maale Adoemim”
  • Dutch: “Maale Adumim”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “معاليه ادوميم”
  • Finnish: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • French: “Ma’ale Adoumim”
  • French: “Ma’ale Adummim”
  • French: “Ma’aleh Adumim”
  • Georgian: “მაალე-ადუმიმი”
  • German: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • German: “Ma’ale Adummim”
  • German: “Ma’aleh Adumim”
  • German: “Maale Adumim”
  • German: “Maʿale Adummim”
  • Greek: “Μααλέ Αντουμίμ”
  • Hebrew: “מעלה אדומים”
  • Hebrew: “מעלה אדמים”
  • Hindi: “माले अदुमीम”
  • Indonesian: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Italian: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Italian: “Ma’ale Adummim”
  • Japanese: “マアレ・アドゥミーム”
  • Japanese: “マアレ・アドゥンミーム”
  • Japanese: “マアレ・アドミーム”
  • Japanese: “マアレー・アドゥミーム”
  • Japanese: “マアレー・アドゥンミーム”
  • Korean: “마아레아두밈”
  • Ladino: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ma’ale Adummim”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maale Adumim”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maale Adummim”
  • Norwegian: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Persian: “معاله آدومیم”
  • Persian: “معالهٔ آدومیم”
  • Persian: “معاله ادومیم”
  • Polish: “Ma’ale Adummim”
  • Portuguese: “Ma’ale Adummim”
  • Russian: “Маале Адумим”
  • Russian: “Маале-Адумим”
  • Russian: “Маале-Адуммим”
  • Spanish: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Spanish: “Maale Adumim”
  • Swedish: “Ma’ale Adummim”
  • Swedish: “Maale Adumim”
  • Tagalog: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Ukrainian: “Маале-Адумім”
  • Ukrainian: “Маалє-Адумім”
  • Urdu: “معالی ادومیم”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma’ale Adumim”
  • Yiddish: “מעלה אדומים”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ma’ale Adumim”. Photo: Labour Palestine, CC BY 2.0.