Al-Birwa
Al-Birwa was a Palestinian Arab village, located 10.5 kilometers (6.5 mi) east of Acre (Akka).
Al-Birwa was a Palestinian Arab village, located 10.5 kilometers (6.5 mi) east of Acre (Akka). In 1945, it had a population of 1,460, of whom the majority were Muslims and a significant minority, Christians. Its total land area consisted of 13,542 dunams. The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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Worth seeing in and around Al-Birwa
2 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.
- 01HaYonim Cave
HaYonim Cave is a cave located in a limestone bluff about 250 meters above modern sea level, in the Upper Galilee, Israel.
3.9 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Hurvat Utsa
Horbat 'Uza is an archaeological site located in the Northern Coastal Plain, 8 km east of Acre, Israel. Interesting findings from the Neolithic, classical antiquity and Crusader period have been made during salvage excavations caused by the construction of a modern highway and a new railway line cutting through the site.
2.9 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Al-Birwa
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 103 km · Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 106 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 129 km
- Stations
- Ahihud railway station, 900 m
- Tel Aviv → Al-BirwaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Eilat → Al-BirwaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Amman → Al-BirwaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Al-Birwa
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-Birwa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTrain, bus, car or hitch-hiking into the Western Galilee are the options you have.
- Get aroundHitch-hiking is also possible and relatively easy north of Akko.
From Wikivoyage: Western Galilee, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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- Ahihudhuman settlement in Israel800 m
- Acre Subdistrictsubdistrict in the northern district of Israel1.8 km