Afikim

Afikim is a village in , . Afikim is situated nearby to the village , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include El `Ubeidiya and Samakh.

Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ubeidiya, some 3 km south of the , in the Jordan Rift Valley, , is an archaeological site of the early Pleistocene, c. 1.5 million years ago, preserving traces of one of the earliest migrations of Homo erectus out of Africa, with only the site of in being older.

Ruins
Photo: אסף.צ, Public domain.
was a Palestinian Arab village at the south end of Lake Tiberias in Ottoman Galilee and later Mandatory Palestine. It was the site of battle in 1918 during World War I.

Historic building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
is a historic building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Afikim and Beit Zera.

Village
is an Israeli kibbutz affiliated with the Kibbutz Movement located in the Jordan Valley three kilometers from the . It is within the jurisdiction of the Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,140.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a kibbutz in northern . Located on the southern shore of the , it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. As of 2024 it had a population of 876.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a kibbutz in northern . Located in the northern Jordan Valley near the , it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council.

Afikim

Latitude
32.68137° or 32° 40′ 53″ north
Longitude
35.57833° or 35° 34′ 42″ east
Open location code
8G4QMHJH+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278474378
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Czech to Swedish—“Afikim” goes by many names.
  • Czech: “Afikim”
  • Dutch: “Afikim”
  • French: “Afikim”
  • German: “Afikim”
  • Hebrew: “אפיקים”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afikim”
  • Polish: “Afikim”
  • Spanish: “Afikim”
  • Swedish: “Afiqim”

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