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Abu Qash

Abu Qash is a Palestinian village located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, located north of Ramallah and south of the Birzeit University.

Abu Qash
Abu Qash · יעקב
The place

Abu Qash is a Palestinian village located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, located north of Ramallah and south of the Birzeit University. According to the 2017 census conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 2,237.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Abu Qash

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Birzeit University

    Birzeit University is a public university in the West Bank, Palestine, registered by the Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs as a charitable organization. It is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education and located in the outskirts of Birzeit, near Ramallah.

    900 m · public university in the West Bank, State of Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Palestinian Museum

    The Palestinian Museum is a museum in Birzeit, in the West Bank, Palestine, that was inaugurated on 18 May 2016. It is a flagship project of the Welfare Association, a non-profit organization for developing humanitarian projects in Palestine.

    1.3 km · museum in Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Palestinian National Library

    The Palestinian National Library is a national library located in Ramallah, in the West Bank, Palestine. It was also known as the National Library of Palestine.

    2.1 km · national library located in Ramallah, West Bank · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Abu Qash

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 29 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 76 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 81 km
  • Eilat → Abu Qash
    267 km · quickest by road, 6h 11m · ₪110–145
  • Amman → Abu Qash
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · JD4–5
  • El Arish → Abu Qash
    160 km · quickest by road, 5h 10m · E£385–510
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Abu Qash

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abu Qash. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Bethlehem take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the Bethlehem bus station at Manger St.
  • Get inFrom Jericho take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the central roundabout with the garden in the middle.
  • Get aroundAs the city center is relatively small, it is not hard to walk to most destinations downtown (including the old city.) Service shuttles (shared taxis) are also available from downtown to most suburbs and to the outskirts of the city at relatively low prices (₪2.5 inside the city and up to ₪6 to nearby towns and villages).

From Wikivoyage: Ramallah, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    183 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    265 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    389 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    695 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,055 km

If you know how people move in Abu Qash – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Abu Qash

Abu Qash is 19 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • BirzeitPalestinian town north of Ramallah2.6 km
  • Beit ElIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3.7 km
  • Jifnavillage council in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate3.2 km
  • Mount Ephraimhistorical district of Israel3.8 km
  • Al-Zaitounahmunicipality type C in Ramallah and al-Bireh, State of Palestine1.9 km
  • Surda, Ramallahmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate2.1 km