Skip to content
Mixroutes
Place in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine · Israel

Bayt Mahsir

Bayt Mahsir was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict.

Bayt Mahsir
Bayt Mahsir · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bayt Mahsir was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948, by the Harel Brigade of Operation Makkabi. It was located 9 km west of Jerusalem.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bayt Mahsir

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
    Hurvat Mezad

    Horvat Mazad or Khirbet el-Qasr is an archaeological site located in the Jerusalem District of Israel. Occupied intermittently from the Late Bronze Age to the modern period, its main phase occurred between the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century CE, when it was developed into a fortified complex by the Hasmonean and Herodian dynasties before being abandoned during the First Jewish–Roman War.

    3.1 km · archaeological site in Judea, Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Scroll of Fire

    Scroll of Fire is a monument found in the Forest of the Martyrs, on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. It commemorates Jewish history from The Holocaust until the independence of the State of Israel in 1948.

    2.6 km · monument to Jewish history · 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.

Go there

Getting to Bayt Mahsir

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 28 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 91 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 92 km
  • Eilat → Bayt Mahsir
    249 km · quickest by road, 5h 38m · ₪110–145
  • Amman → Bayt Mahsir
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · JD4.5–6
  • El Arish → Bayt Mahsir
    139 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · E£340–455
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bayt Mahsir

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 Bayt Mahsir. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    169 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    250 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    370 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    697 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,054 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bayt Mahsir

Bayt Mahsir is 17 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Eshtaolmoshav in Jerusalem District, central Israel2.8 km
  • Dayr Ayyubvillage in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine4 km
  • SarisPalestinian Arab village3.7 km
  • Islinvillage in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine2.9 km
  • Ishwavillage in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine2.7 km
  • Ksalonhuman settlement in Israel2.7 km