Tel Gezer
Gezer, or Tel Gezer, in Arabic: تل الجزر – Tell Jezar or Tell el-Jezari is an archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains at the border of the Shfela region roughly midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 230 metres
- Description: archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains
- Also known as: “Gezer” and “Siege of Gezer”
Places of Interest
Highlights include From Fragments to Hope Memorial and Lehi.
From Fragments to Hope Memorial
Monument
Photo: YoavR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
From Fragments to Hope Memorial is a monument.
Memorial to the Hebrew Volunteers to the British Army in the World Wars
Monument
Photo: YoavR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Memorial to the Hebrew Volunteers to the British Army in the World Wars is a monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Latrun and Beit Hashmonai.
Latrun
Latrun is a hilltop in Shfelah overlooking the road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 25 kilometers west of Jerusalem. The hill is home to several sights.
Beit Hashmonai
Village
Photo: Idobi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beit Hashmonai is a community settlement in central Israel. Located five kilometers south-east of Ramla, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In 2023, it had a population of 2,162.
Karmei Yosef
Village
Karmei Yosef is a community settlement in the Judean foothills in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah between Bet Shemesh and Rehovot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,769.
Tel Gezer
- Categories: human settlement, tell, archaeological site, national park, national park, and landform
- Location: Central District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.8597° or 31° 51′ 35″ northLongitude
34.9225° or 34° 55′ 21″ eastElevation
230 metres (755 feet)Open location code
8G3PVW5C+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 994908263OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q1466687
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tel Gezer” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تل الجزر”
- Basque: “Gezer”
- Bulgarian: “Гезер”
- Bulgarian: “Тел-Гезер”
- Catalan: “Gazer”
- Catalan: “Gezer”
- Catalan: “Guèzer”
- Cebuano: “Tel Gezer”
- Chinese: “基色”
- Czech: “Gezer”
- Czech: “Tel Gezer”
- Dutch: “Gezer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تل الجزر”
- French: “Gezer”
- French: “Gézer”
- French: “Guézer”
- French: “Tel-Guézer”
- Galician: “Gezer”
- German: “Gazara”
- German: “Gezer”
- Hebrew: “גזר”
- Hebrew: “גן לאומי תל גזר”
- Hebrew: “תל גזר”
- Hungarian: “Gézer”
- Indonesian: “Gezer”
- Irish: “Gezer”
- Italian: “Gezer”
- Japanese: “ゲゼル”
- Javanese: “Gezer”
- Korean: “게셀”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gezer”
- Norwegian: “Gezer”
- Persian: “گزر (تل الجزر)”
- Persian: “گزر”
- Polish: “Gezer”
- Russian: “Гезер”
- Russian: “Тель-Гезер”
- Slovenian: “Gezer”
- Spanish: “Gezer”
- Spanish: “Gézer”
- Swedish: “Gezer”
- Turkish: “Gezer”
- Ukrainian: “Гезер”
- Ukrainian: “Ґезер”
- Ukrainian: “Тель-Гезер”
- Ukrainian: “Тель-Ґезер”
- Vietnamese: “Gezer”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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