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Al-Samakiyya

Al-Samakiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict.

Al-Samakiyya
Al-Samakiyya · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Al-Samakiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, under Operation Matateh. It was located 11 km northeast of Tiberias, near the Wadi al-Wadabani. The village was located at Tel Hum, which has been identified with Capernaum.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Al-Samakiyya

7 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
    Capernaum

    Capernaum was a fishing village established during the time of the Hasmoneans in Israel, located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It had a population of about 1,500 in the 1st century AD. Archaeological excavations have revealed two ancient synagogues built successively at the same spot.

    400 m · village at Lake Tiberias in the north of historical Judea, associated with Jesus · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mount of Beatitudes

    The Mount of Beatitudes is a hill in northern Israel, in the Korazim Plateau. It is the traditional site of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.

    2.1 km · mountain in Israel, near Lake Galilee · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of the Multiplication

    The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish, shortened to the Church of the Multiplication, is a Roman Catholic church located at Tabgha, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The modern church rests on the site of two earlier churches.

    3 km · church · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of the Beatitudes

    The Church of the Beatitudes is a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Beatitudes by the Sea of Galilee near Tabgha and Capernaum in Israel.

    2.1 km · church building in Tabgha, Israel · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of the Primacy of St. Peter

    The Church of the Primacy of Saint Peter is a Franciscan church located in Tabgha, Israel, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. It commemorates, and allegedly marks the spot, of Jesus' reinstatement of Peter as chief among the Apostles.

    2.9 km · church building in Tabgha, Israel · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Monastery of the Holy Apostles

    The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Apostles, in common use simply Church of the Apostles is the church at the centre of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Holy Apostles at Capernaum, standing among the ruins of ancient Capernaum near the shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. It is also known as simply the Greek Orthodox church at Capernaum, to differentiate it from the Franciscan monastery standing in the southern part of Capernaum.

    200 m · church building in Capernaum, Israel · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Saint Peter Church, Capernaum

    St. Peter's Church, also called the Pilgrimage Church of St.

    400 m · church · 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 Al-Samakiyya

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Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 104 km · Damascus (DAM), 105 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 108 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Al-Samakiyya

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-Samakiyya. 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.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    285 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    368 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    498 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    658 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,031 km

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Around it

Next door to Al-Samakiyya

Al-Samakiyya is 44 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tabghahamlet on the shore of Sea of Galilee2.9 km
  • Karraza, Khirbatvillage in Safad, Mandatory Palestine3.3 km
  • Korazimcommunity settlement in Northern Israel3.9 km
  • Amnunhuman settlement in Israel2.4 km
  • Chorazinhuman settlement in Israel3.3 km