Hamei Yoav
- Location
- Hamei Yoav, Israel
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7.2
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Hamei Yoav in Sde Yo'av in the Judean Foothills of southern Israel is a bicarbonate mineral spa drawing on naturally warm mineral water from deep geological formations beneath the Shephelah lowlands, offering bathing associated with well-being in a quiet rural setting in the rolling agricultural landscape between the coastal plain and the Judean Hills. The Shephelah region's landscape of wheat fields, olive groves, and low limestone hills has been cultivated continuously since the Bronze Age, and the ancient Philistine city of Tel Zafit (Gath) — legendary home of Goliath — lies within the same region. Hamei Yoav's warm bicarbonate springs provide a natural wellness resource within a long thermal tradition in a historically rich Israeli rural landscape that sees far fewer visitors than the country's more celebrated thermal and coastal destinations.