Al-Jab’a

Jab'a or al-Jab'a is a Palestinian village in the central , located 17 kilometers north of Hebron and 15 kilometers southwest of . Located three kilometers east of the Green Line, it is located in the Seam Zone, surrounded by the Israeli settlements in the Gush Etzion Regional Council and the Israeli West Bank barrier.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: local development committee in Bethlehem Governorate
  • Also known as: “Al Jaba‘” and “Jab’a”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Khirbet DJumdjum.

Archaeological site
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Khirbet Jamjum is an archaeological site located in the western Hebron Hills of the modern-day . The settlement occupies the summit and southern saddle of a prominent limestone ridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gvaot and Surif.

Village
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Gevaot is an Israeli settlement located in the , in the westernmost area of the settlement bloc. It is named for the hills from which Balaam spoke, according to Numbers 23:9, just like the neighbouring settlement .

Town
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is a Palestinian City in the located 25 km northwest of the city of . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics census, had a population of 17,287 in 2017. is situated 3 km southwest of Al-Jab’a.

Village
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is an Israeli settlement in in the , between and , founded in 1989 by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg, in lands that Israel confiscated from the neighbouring Palestinian villages of and Jab'a. is situated 3 km southeast of Al-Jab’a.

Al-Jab’a

Latitude
31.67483° or 31° 40′ 29″ north
Longitude
35.07843° or 35° 4′ 42″ east
Open location code
8G3QM3FH+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 431635979
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Wiki­data ID
Q2898384
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Al-Jab’a” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الجبعة”
  • Arabic: “جبعة”
  • Asturian: “Jab’a”
  • Catalan: “Jab’a”
  • Czech: “Al-Džab’a”
  • Dutch: “Jab’a”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الجبعه”
  • French: “Jab’a”
  • Hebrew: “אל-ג’בעה”
  • Hebrew: “ג’בעה”
  • Irish: “Jab’a”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jab’a”
  • Persian: “جبعه”
  • Spanish: “Jab’a”
  • Spanish: “Yab’a”
  • Spanish: “Yaba’a”

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