Meitsad
Metzad, also known as Asfar, is an Israeli settlement organised as a community settlement in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank. Established as by ultra-orthodox Jews in 1984, it is located south of Bethlehem in the eastern Judean Mountains, 14.5 km from the Green Line, outside the Separation Barrier.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 932 residents
- Description: Israeli settlement West Bank
- Also known as: “Asfar”, “Meitzad”, and “Metzad”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pnei Kedem and Al-Shuyukh.
Pnei Kedem
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Pnei Kedem is an Israeli outpost in the West Bank. It is located next to the Palestinian city of Si'ir and is formally connected to the Israeli settlement of Metzad, in the southeastern part of the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, in the eastern Judean Mountains facing Nahal Arugot.
Al-Shuyukh
Town
Photo: Jihad1335, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ash-Shuyukh or al-Shuyukh is a Palestinian town in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine, located 6 km northeast of the city of Hebron. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Ash-Shuyukh had a population of 12,052 in 2017. Al-Shuyukh is situated 3½ km west of Meitsad.
Ibei HaNahal
Locality
Ibei HaNahal is an Israeli outpost within the Gush Etzion settlement block in the West Bank. It was founded in 1999 and named after Biblical words from Song of Songs 6:11. Ibei HaNahal is situated 3½ km northeast of Meitsad.
Meitsad
- Categories: Israeli settlement and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.58587° or 31° 35′ 9″ northLongitude
35.18779° or 35° 11′ 16″ eastPopulation
932Open location code
8G3QH5PQ+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 1569826025OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q2916610
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Meitsad” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميتساد”
- Catalan: “Asfar”
- Catalan: “Metzad”
- Czech: “Asfar”
- Czech: “Mecad”
- Czech: “Meitzad”
- Czech: “Metzad”
- Dutch: “Metzad”
- French: “Metzad”
- Greek: “Μετσάντ”
- Hebrew: “אספר”
- Hebrew: “מיצד”
- Indonesian: “Metzad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Metzad”
- Polish: “Asfar”
- Spanish: “Asfar”
- Spanish: “Metzad”
- Urdu: “میتزاد”
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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 Wikipedia page “Meitsad”. Photo: יעקב, CC BY 3.0.