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Amuka, Israel

Amuka is a community settlement about 6 km northeast of Safed in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel.

Amuka, Israel
Amuka, Israel · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Amuka is a community settlement about 6 km northeast of Safed in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. It belongs to the Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 153.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Amuka, Israel

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.

  1. 01
    Nabratein synagogue

    The Nabratein synagogue or Navoraya synagogue is a former ancient synagogue and archaeological site, located in a pine forest northeast of Safed, in the Upper Galilee region of the Northern District of Israel.

    1 km · ancient synagogue and archaeological site · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Birya Fortress

    Birya Fortress is a fortress built by the Jewish Palmach paramilitary during the British Mandate near the Jewish village of Birya and the Arab village of Biriyya. In 1946 the Birya affair took place here.

    1.7 km · fortress built during the British Mandate, near the modern town of Birya · 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 Amuka, Israel

Airports
Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 91 km · Damascus (DAM), 103 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 122 km
  • Beirut → Amuka, Israel
    100 km · quickest by road, 4h 44m · $19–27
  • Amman → Amuka, Israel
    122 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · JD6–9
  • Damascus → Amuka, Israel
    91 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · $12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Amuka, Israel

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 Amuka, Israel. 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

    297 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    381 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    510 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    647 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,020 km

If you know how people move in Amuka, Israel – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Amuka, Israel

Amuka, Israel is 58 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.