Israel
Upper Galilee
Northern District

Safed

Safed is a city in the region of , and is one of the oldest centers for Jewish learning and spirituality, home to the Kabbalah movement which is popular with celebrities.
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  • 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.

Synagogue
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Safed, in the of . The synagogue was completed in the 15th-century century and named in honor of the kabbalist of the era, Rabbi Isaac Abuhav.

University
Photo: דגיג, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an university.

Cemetery
Photo: Louski1, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rosh Pina and Birya.

Photo: Almog, Public domain.
Rosh Pinna or , is a town in the Korazim Plateau in the on the eastern slopes of Mount Kna'an in the of .

Village
Photo: Boazshlomi, Public domain.
is an agricultural village in northern . Located in the near Safed, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Merom HaGalil Regional Council.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
'Akbara is an Arab village in the of Safed, which included in 2010 more than 200 families. It is 2.5 km south of Safed City. The village was rebuilt in 1977, close to the old village destroyed in 1948 during the 1947–1949 Palestine war.

Safed

Latitude
32.9646° or 32° 57′ 53″ north
Longitude
35.5025° or 35° 30′ 9″ east
Population
30,100
Elevation
779 metres (2,556 feet)
Open location code
8G4QXG72+VX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278478605
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
293100
Wiki­data ID
Q188336
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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: “Цфат”
  • Bengali: “সাফেদ”
  • Bulgarian: “Сафед”
  • Catalan: “Safad”
  • Catalan: “Safed”
  • Cebuano: “Safed”
  • 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: “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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