Judaean Desert

Also known as Judean Desert

desert in the southern Levant

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Encyclopedic overview

Judaean Desert Location of Judaean Desert in Israel and the West Bank in red

The Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה, romanized: Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in Israel that stretches east of the ridge of the Judaean Mountains and in their rain shadow, so east of Jerusalem, and descends to the Dead Sea.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Judaean Desert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.