Kfar Adumim

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Kfar Adumim ( Hebrew כְּפַר אֲדֻמִּים) is an Israeli communal settlement in Judea ( West Bank ). It is located in the Judean Desert and is under the jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council . In 2007, the settlement had a population of around 2500, according to a 2016 census by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , it had 4271 inhabitants.

Khan al-Ahmar , a Bedouin village, is located between Kfar Adumim and Maʿale Adummim .

The village was founded in September 1979, and the name was taken from the Bible (Joshua 15: 7), like the nearby Ma'ale Adummim.


Kfar Adumim settlement of Nofei Prat seen from

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved April 21, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cbs.gov.il
  2. ^ West Bank village under threat al-Jazeera
  3. ↑ Hanna Bitan: 1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel . Carta, 1999, ISBN 965-220-423-4 , pp. 31 .

Coordinates: 31 ° 49 ′ 20.3 "  N , 35 ° 20 ′ 8.9"  E