Bar Yohai
Bar Yohai is a religious Jewish community settlement in northern Israel.
Bar Yohai is a religious Jewish community settlement in northern Israel. Located near Mount Meron, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. as of 2024 its population was 1,173.
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Worth seeing in and around Bar Yohai
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.
- 01Meron
Mount Meron, also known as Mount Jarmaq or Jebel Jarmaq, is a mountain in the Upper Galilee region of Israel. It has special significance in Jewish religious tradition and parts of it have been declared a nature reserve.
3.4 km · mountain in the Upper Galilee in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Khirbat Shema
Khirbet Shema is an archaeological site located in Israel at the foot of Mount Meron. It features the ruins of a large Jewish village of the Roman and Byzantine periods, including the remains of an ancient synagogue and a mausoleum.
2.4 km · archaeological site located in Israel at the foot of Mount Meron · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bar Yohai
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 91 km · Damascus (DAM), 109 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 122 km
- Beirut → Bar Yohai100 km · quickest by road, 5h 2m · $21–28
- Amman → Bar Yohai125 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · JD7–9
- Damascus → Bar Yohai97 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · $13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bar Yohai
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 Bar Yohai. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextSafed is an ideal location for basing many day trips in the northern area of Israel.
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Next door to Bar Yohai
- JishChristian town in Israel3.1 km
- Meironancient city in Galilee2 km
- Safsafvillage in Safad, Mandatory Palestine1.6 km
- Or HaGanuzhuman settlement in Israel900 m
- Kfar Hoshenhuman settlement in Israel1.8 km
- Qadditavillage in Safad, Mandatory Palestine1.9 km