Arava or

Aravah The Arabah/Araba () or Aravah/Arava () is a loosely defined geographic area in the Negev Desert, south of the Dead Sea drainage basin, basin, which forms part of the border between Israel to the west and Jordan to the east. The old meaning, wh ...

is the Hebrew name of a section of the Great Rift Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat in Israel and Jordan. Its Arabic name is Arabah. Arava may also refer to:

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Arava, Estonia Arava () is a village in Anija Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the ...

, a village in Anija Parish, Harju County, Estonia *Arava(h) / Araba(h) Valley-related: **

Arava Stream The Arava Stream (, Nahal HaArava) is an intermittent stream (occasionally flowing in the rainy, winter season) that flows from the approximate mid-point of the Arava desert in Israel's Southern District northward. It is 89 km long, and ...

, an intermittent stream **

Sea of Arava The Dead Sea (; or ; ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the Israeli-occupied West Bank to the west and Israel to the southwest. It lies in the endorheic basin of the Jordan Rift Valley, a ...

, the Dead Sea

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Arava Institute for Environmental Studies Arava or Aravah is the Hebrew name of a section of the Great Rift Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat in Israel and Jordan. Its Arabic name is Arabah. Arava may also refer to: Places *Arava, Estonia, a village in Anija Parish, ...

, an Israeli study programme **

Arava Power Company Arava Power Company (APC) Arava Power is a utility-scale renewables Developer-IPP that pioneered Israeli utility-scale PV market. The company founded in 2006 on Ketura in the Arava Valley. On June 5, 2011, APC inaugurated Israel's first medium- ...

, an Israeli solar energy company **

Arava spider ''Cerbalus aravaensis'' is a huntsman spider found in the southern Arava Valley of Israel and Jordan. The species was first described by Gershom Levy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007, though news agencies later reported it in 2010 ...

, a huntsman spider found in the southern Arava Valley of Israel and Jordan **

IAI Arava The Israeli Aircraft Industries Arava (, "Willow" or "Steppe" or "Desert", named after the Aravah of the Jordan Rift Valley) is a light STOL utility transport aircraft developed and produced by Israeli aerospace company Israel Aerospace Industri ...

, a plane manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries *Arava, a brand name for the antirheumatic drug

leflunomide Leflunomide, sold under the brand name Arava among others, is an immunosuppressive disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD), used in active moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. It is a pyrimidine synthesis inhib ...

* Arava Shahaf (born 1990), Israeli female footballer *

Aravah (Sukkot) Aravah (, pl. aravot - ) is a leafy branch of the willow tree. It is one of the Four Species ( - ) used in a special waving ceremony during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The other species are the '' lulav'' ( palm frond), '' hadass'' ( myrtle) ...

, a willow branch, one of the four species used on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot

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