Safa Village
Khirbet Safa is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers north-west of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,105 in mid-year 2006.Photo: أنوار الجعبري, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village council in Hebron Governorate
- Also known as: “Khirbet Safa” and “Ṣāfā”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Khirbet DJumdjum and Gush Etsyon Junction.
Khirbet DJumdjum
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Khirbet Jamjum is an archaeological site located in the western Hebron Hills of the modern-day West Bank. The settlement occupies the summit and southern saddle of a prominent limestone ridge. Khirbet DJumdjum is situated 3 km north of Safa Village.
Gush Etsyon Junction
Bus stop
Gush Etzion Junction, also known simply as Gush Junction, is a 120-dunam business, commercial and tourism center in the southern West Bank, which serves as the entry point to the Gush Etzion bloc of settlements. Gush Etsyon Junction is situated 3 km east of Safa Village.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bat Ayin and Kfar Etzion.
Bat Ayin
Village
Photo: מיכאלי, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bat Ayin is an Israeli settlement in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, between Jerusalem and Hebron, founded in 1989 by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg, in lands that Israel confiscated from the neighbouring Palestinian villages of Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah and Jab'a.
Kfar Etzion
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kfar Etzion is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, organized as a religious kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank, established in 1927, depopulated in 1948 by Arab forces and re-established in 1967.
Beit Ummar
Town
Photo: Palobserver, Public domain.
Beit Ummar is a Palestinian town located eleven kilometers northwest of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2017, the town had a population of 16,977 inhabitants. Beit Ummar is situated 2½ km south of Safa Village.
Safa Village
- Category: locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.64332° or 31° 38′ 36″ northLongitude
35.09929° or 35° 5′ 57″ eastOpen location code
8G3QJ3VX+8POpenStreetMap ID
node 4231905663OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q6401757
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Satellite Map
Discover Safa Village from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Safa Village” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خربة صافا”
- Arabic: “صافا”
- Arabic: “قرية صافا”
- Catalan: “Khirbet Safa”
- Czech: “Sáfá”
- Dutch: “Khirbet Safa”
- French: “Khirbet Safa”
- Hebrew: “ח’ירבת סאפא”
- Hebrew: “ח’רבת סאפא”
- Hebrew: “סאפה”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khirbet Safa”
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