Amka
Amka, also Amqa, is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's Northern District, near Acre.
Amka, also Amqa, is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's Northern District, near Acre. The moshav, located in the vicinity of Amqa, a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, was founded by Yemenite Jews in 1949. In 2024, its population was 946.
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Worth seeing in and around Amka
One place 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.
- 01Tel Kabri
Tel Kabri, or Tell al-Qahweh, is an archaeological tell containing one of the largest Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palaces in Israel, and the largest such palace excavated as of 2014. Kabri is named for the abundance of its perennial springs the presence of which has led to the site's occupation and use as a water source from the Pottery Neolithic period to the present day.
3.9 km · tell (hill city), containing one of the largest Middle Bronze (MB) Age (2,100–1,550 BC) Canaanite palaces in ancient Palestine · Wikipedia
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Getting to Amka
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 98 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 111 km · Damascus (DAM), 135 km
- Beirut → Amka106 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · $23–32
- Amman → Amka135 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · JD7–9
- Tel Aviv → Amka106 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · ₪43–55
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Amka
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 Amka. 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.
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Next door to Amka
- Abu SnanArab town in northern Israel2.6 km
- Kafr YasifArab village in northern Israel2.8 km
- Sheikh DanunArab village in northern Israel2 km
- Kuwaykatdepopulated village in mandatory Palestine1.8 km
- Al-Ghabisiyyadepopulated village in Palestine2.7 km
- al-Nahrdepopulated Palestinian village3.7 km