Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa
Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa is a Palestinian village located eighteen kilometers southwest of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank.
Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa is a Palestinian village located eighteen kilometers southwest of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,385 in 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa
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.
- 01Tell Beit Mirsim
Tell Beit Mirsim is an archaeological site in central Israel, on the border between the lowlands of Shfela and Mount Hebron. It is located in the eastern region of Lachish about 20 kilometers southwest of Hebron and about 13 kilometers southeast of Lachish.
1.6 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 62 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 105 km · El Arish (AAC), 113 km
- Tel Aviv → Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa71 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · ₪30–40
- Eilat → Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa211 km · quickest by road, 4h 43m · ₪85–115
- Amman → Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa111 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · JD6–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa
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 Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt is difficult for the individual traveler to reach Israel by boat, and there are no regular ferries.
- Get aroundA sherut (Hebrew for service) or servees (Arabic) is a shared taxi that seats more than four people (the usual occupancy is ten).
- Get aroundTo differentiate from a shared taxi (sherut), a regular Israel taxi is sometimes called special (using the English word).
- Get aroundHitchhiking is more accepted in rural areas, particularly sparsely populated areas like the Golan Heights or between smaller towns in the West Bank that have little bus service, than in cities.
- Get aroundLocal West Bank settlers rely heavily on hitch-hiking for transportation.
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Next door to Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa
Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa is 44 km from Gaza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqavillage council in Hebron Governorate2.2 km
- Al-Majd, Hebronvillage council in Hebron Governorate3.9 km
- Bait ar-Rush at-Tahtavillage in the Hebron Governorate1.6 km
- Beit Mirsimvillage800 m
- NetaCommunity settlement in southern Israel2.9 km