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Beit Kahil

Beit Kahil is a Palestinian village in the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank, located seven kilometers northwest of Hebron.

Beit Kahil
Beit Kahil · יעקב
The place

Beit Kahil is a Palestinian village in the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank, located seven kilometers northwest of Hebron. The village had a population of 8,880 in 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Beit Kahil

5 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
    Hebron University

    Hebron University is a non-profit, public university in the city of Hebron, West Bank, Palestine. It has an undergraduate enrollment of more than 10,000 students.

    3.3 km · university in Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mamre

    Mamre, full name "Oaks of Mamre", refers to an ancient religious site originally focused on a single holy tree growing "since time immemorial" at Hebron in Canaan. It is best known from the biblical story of Abraham and the three visitors.

    4 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mount Nabi Yunis

    Nabi Yunis is the highest point in the State of Palestine, with an altitude of 1,030 metres. It is located in the town of Halhul, Hebron Governorate, and is part of the Judean Mountains.

    3.8 km · Hill in Palestine · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Abraham's Oak Holy Trinity Monastery

    The Church of the Holy Forefathers and Monastery of the Holy Trinity, also known as Al Maskobiya, is a Russian Orthodox monastery and church in Hebron, Palestine, founded in the 20th century on the site of the ancient Oak of Mamre.

    4 km · church in Hebron, Palestine · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Beth-zur

    Beth-Zur is a biblical site of historic and archaeological importance in the mountains of Hebron in southern Judea, now part of the West Bank. Beth Zur is mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible and the writings of the Roman Jewish historian Josephus.

    3.5 km · archaeological site in West Bank, Israel · 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 Beit Kahil

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 52 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 89 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 98 km
  • Tel Aviv → Beit Kahil
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · ₪31–41
  • Eilat → Beit Kahil
    225 km · quickest by road, 5h 15m · ₪95–125
  • Amman → Beit Kahil
    93 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · JD5–7
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Beit Kahil

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextNearby popular sights in the West Bank, that allow for a day trip from Hebron, include Tor-Safa Cave, Taffuh Underground Church, Tomb of Prophet Lot and Birkat al-Karmil (Holy Pool).

From Wikivoyage: Hebron, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    144 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    224 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    346 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    717 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,071 km

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Around it

Next door to Beit Kahil

Beit Kahil is 26 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Halhulcity in the Palestinian National Authority3.3 km
  • Taffuhmunicipality in Hebron Governorate3.6 km
  • Telem, Har HebronIsraeli settlement in the occupied West Bank3.4 km