--- title: "Al-'Abisiyya – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Al-'Abisiyya, Lebanon: Al-'Abisiyya or al-'Absiyya, was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. Nearby: Tel Anafa, Givat HaEm, Hurshat Tal.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-abisiyya" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-abisiyya.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine · Lebanon # Al-'Abisiyya Al-'Abisiyya or al-'Absiyya, was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. The place Al-'Abisiyya or al-'Absiyya, was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 29, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28.5 km northeast of Safad near to the Banyas River which the village relied on for irrigation. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-'Abisiyya), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Al-'Abisiyya 4 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. Tel Anafa Tel Anafa (Hebrew: תל אנפה, lit. "Egret hill" Arabic: تل الأخضر, romanized: Tel el-Hader, lit. 2.6 km · hill in Northern District, Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Anafa) 2. Givat HaEm Giv'at Ha'Em is a hill named for American Zionist leader Henrietta Szold, known as the mother of Youth Aliya. The hill lies in the Galilee Panhandle in northern Israel, 196 m above sea level, 1 km east of the Route 918 and 2 km north of Kfar Szold. 2.6 km · mountain in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givat_HaEm) 3. Hurshat Tal Hurshat Tal is a national park and nature reserve in the Northern District of Israel. 2.5 km · national park and nature reserve in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurshat_Tal) 4. Omrit Omrit, or Khirbat ‘Umayrī, is the site of an ancient Roman temple. It stands where the western slopes of the Golan Heights meet the Upper Jordan Valley, in the 1949 Israel–Syria demilitarised zone, not far from Banias. 3.5 km · Archaeological site of an ancient Roman temple in northern Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omrit) 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. Go there ## Getting to Al-'Abisiyya **Airports:** Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 70 km · Damascus (DAM), 85 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 140 km\ **Stations:** Kiryat Shmona Airport, 3.9 km\ - Beirut → Al-'Abisiyya Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/beirut-to-al-abisiyya) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Beirut&to=Al-%27Abisiyya) - Damascus → Al-'Abisiyya Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/damascus-to-al-abisiyya) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Damascus&to=Al-%27Abisiyya) - Amman → Al-'Abisiyya Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-al-abisiyya) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=Al-%27Abisiyya) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Al-'Abisiyya) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Al-'Abisiyya 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 Al-'Abisiyya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Charter airlines can still make the trip for you, but commercial flight service no longer operates. - Get around Hitch-hiking is also accepted and possible. From [Wikivoyage: Galilee Panhandle](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Galilee_Panhandle), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 320 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 404 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 534 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 643 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,018 km If you know how people move in Al-'Abisiyya – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cal-abisiyya&title=Al-%27Abisiyya&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fal-abisiyya), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Al-'Abisiyya - [Kfar Szold](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kfar-szold) human settlement 2.3 km - [Beit Hillel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beit-hillel) human settlement in Israel 2.7 km - [Al-Khisas, Safad](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-khisas-safad) village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine 3.2 km - [She'ar Yashuv](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shear-yashuv) human settlement in Israel 3.3 km - [Al-Zuq al-Tahtani](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-zuq-al-tahtani) village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine 3.5 km - [Al-Salihiyya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-salihiyya) village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine 4 km [The place page for Al-'Abisiyya](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/al-abisiyya) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Lebanon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-LB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-abisiyya, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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