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Al-Ras al-Ahmar

Al-Ras al-Ahmar was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict.

The place

Al-Ras al-Ahmar was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on October 30, 1948, by the Israeli 7th Armored Brigade during Operation Hiram. It was located 8.5 km north of Safad.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Al-Ras al-Ahmar

Airports
Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 87 km · Damascus (DAM), 106 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 127 km
  • Beirut → Al-Ras al-Ahmar
    95 km · quickest by road, 5h 1m · $21–28
  • Amman → Al-Ras al-Ahmar
    129 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · JD7–9
  • Damascus → Al-Ras al-Ahmar
    93 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · $13–18
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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-Ras al-Ahmar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextSafed is an ideal location for basing many day trips in the northern area of Israel.

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

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  5. 05
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