Safed
Safed is a city in the Upper Galilee region of Israel, and is one of the oldest centers for Jewish learning and spirituality, home to the Kabbalah movement which is popular with celebrities.- Type: Town with 30,100 residents
- Description: city in northern Israel
- Also known as: “Safad”, “Sfat”, “Tsefat”, “Tzefat”, “Tzfas”, “Tzfat”, “Zefat”, “Ẕefat”, and “Zfat”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abuhav Synagogue and Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee.
Abuhav Synagogue
Synagogue
The Abuhav Synagogue is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Safed, in the Northern Director of Israel. The synagogue was completed in the 15th century and named in honor of the Spanish kabbalist of the era, Rabbi Isaac Abuhav, and is located on the eponymous Abuhav Lane.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosh Pina and Birya.
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Safed
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Northern District, Upper Galilee, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.9662° or 32° 57′ 58″ north
Longitude
35.4961° or 35° 29′ 46″ east
Population
30,100
Elevation
779 metres (2,556 feet)
Open location code
8G4QXF8W+FF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Safed” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Safed”
- Arabic: “صفد”
- Aragonese: “Safet”
- Armenian: “Ցֆաթ”
- Asturian: “Safed”
- Azerbaijani: “Safed”
- Basque: “Safed”
- Belarusian: “Сафэд”
- Belarusian: “Цфат”
- Bengali: “সাফেদ”
- Bulgarian: “Сафед”
- Catalan: “Safad”
- Catalan: “Safed”
- Cebuano: “Safed”
- Central Kurdish: “سەفەد”
- Chinese: “萨法德”
- Chinese: “薩法德”
- Chinese: “采法特”
- Croatian: “Safed”
- Czech: “Cefat”
- Czech: “Cfat”
- Czech: “Safed”
- Czech: “Zefat”
- Danish: “Safad”
- Dutch: “Safad”
- Dutch: “Safed”
- Dutch: “Sefad”
- Dutch: “Tsefiya”
- Dutch: “Tsfat”
- Dutch: “Tzfat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صفد”
- Esperanto: “Cfato”
- Esperanto: “Safed”
- Esperanto: “צְפַת”
- Estonian: “Tsfat”
- Estonian: “Zefat”
- Estonian: “Ẕefat”
- Finnish: “Safed”
- Finnish: “Zefat”
- French: “Safed”
- French: “Saphet”
- French: “tsfat”
- French: “צפת”
- Georgian: “ცფათი”
- German: “Safed”
- German: “Sfad”
- German: “Tzefat”
- German: “Tzfat”
- German: “Zefat”
- German: “Zfat”
- Greek: “Σαφέντ”
- Greek: “Σάφεντ”
- Gujarati: “સફેડ”
- Hebrew: “צפת”
- Hindi: “सफ़त”
- Hindi: “सफ़द”
- Hindi: “सफ़ेद”
- Indonesian: “Safed”
- Indonesian: “Zefat”
- Irish: “Safed”
- Italian: “Safad”
- Italian: “Safed”
- Italian: “Safes”
- Italian: “Safet”
- Italian: “Tsfat”
- Italian: “Tzfat”
- Italian: “Zefat”
- Italian: “Zfat”
- Japanese: “サフェド”
- Japanese: “ツファット”
- Kalaallisut: “Safed”
- Kannada: “ಸಫೆಡ್”
- Kazakh: “Сафад”
- Korean: “사페드”
- Korean: “제파트”
- Ladino: “Safed”
- Latvian: “Safeda”
- Lithuanian: “Safedas”
- Macedonian: “Сафед”
- Macedonian: “Цфат”
- Malay: “Safed”
- Malay: “Zefat”
- Marathi: “सफेड”
- Mingrelian: “ცფათი”
- Mongolian: “Цфат”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Safed”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Safed”
- Norwegian: “Safed”
- Ossetian: “Сафед”
- Persian: “صفد”
- Polish: “Safad”
- Polish: “Safed”
- Polish: “Safet”
- Polish: “Tsfat”
- Polish: “Tzfat”
- Polish: “Zefat”
- Portuguese: “Safad”
- Portuguese: “Safat”
- Portuguese: “Safed”
- Portuguese: “Tsfat”
- Portuguese: “Tzfat”
- Portuguese: “Zefat”
- Romanian: “Safed”
- Russian: “Сафед”
- Russian: “Цефат”
- Russian: “Цфат”
- Scots: “Safed”
- Scots: “צְפַת”
- Serbian: “Safed”
- Serbian: “Сафед”
- Serbian: “צְפַת”
- Sindhi: “صفد”
- Sinhala: “සෆෙඩ්”
- Slovak: “Cfat”
- Slovak: “Safad”
- Slovak: “Safed”
- Slovenian: “Safed”
- Spanish: “Safad”
- Spanish: “Safed”
- Spanish: “צְפַת”
- Swahili: “Safed”
- Swedish: “Safed”
- Swedish: “Tzfat”
- Swiss German: “Safed”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Ẕfat”
- Tagalog: “Safed”
- Tagalog: “Tsfat”
- Tagalog: “Tzfat”
- Tagalog: “Zfat”
- Tagalog: “Ẕfat”
- Tamil: “சேப்பாத்”
- Tatar: “Сәфед”
- Telugu: “సఫేద్”
- Thai: “ซาเฟด”
- Tosk Albanian: “Safed”
- Turkish: “Safed”
- Ukrainian: “Сафед”
- Ukrainian: “Цефат”
- Ukrainian: “Цфат”
- Urdu: “صفد”
- Vietnamese: “Safed”
- Waray (Philippines): “Safed”
- Welsh: “Safed”
- Western Frisian: “Safed”
- Yiddish: “צפאת”
- Yiddish: “צפת”
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