thumb|Village synagogue|alt=Village synagogue|275x275px Nataf (, lit. Stacte) is a community settlement in central Israel. Located in the Judean Mountains, west of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .
thumb|Village synagogue|alt=Village synagogue|275x275px Nataf (, lit. Stacte) is a community settlement in central Israel. Located in the Judean Mountains, west of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .
==Etymology== Its biblical name is adopted from the Hebrew word for stacte, one of the spices used in the Temple ().
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).