Beit Sira
Beit Sira is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, located 22 kilometers west of Ramallah and is a part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.
Beit Sira is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, located 22 kilometers west of Ramallah and is a part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. The village is situated along the Green Line. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, around 4,000 dunams of its land became a part of the "No-Man's Land" strip between the north-central West Bank and Israel. Currently Beit Sira's jurisdiction is 3,120 dunams, of which 441 dunams are built-up areas and the remainder is open spaces for future construction or agricultural land.
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Worth seeing in and around Beit Sira
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.
- 01Bareket observatory
The Bareket Observatory is an astronomical educational observatory owned and operated by the Bareket family. It is located east of the city of Maccabim, near Modiin, in central Israel.
1.2 km · observatory in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Beit Sira
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 20 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 90 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 92 km
- Eilat → Beit Sira260 km · quickest by road, 5h 53m · ₪115–150
- Amman → Beit Sira85 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · JD4.5–6
- El Arish → Beit Sira146 km · quickest by road, 4h 45m · E£365–485
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No local-transport research exists yet for Beit Sira
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 Sira. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundYou are almost always advised to use Shared Taxis which will be quicker although marginally more expensive.
- Get aroundBuses, like shared taxis will also tend to wait until full before departing.
- Get aroundMost shared taxis have fixed bus-stations, often car-parks near the centre of towns or cities.
- Get aroundLarger minivans carry 7 passengers and inner-city shared taxis carry 4.
- Get aroundShared taxis are often distinguished with black stripes on front and back at the sides, particularly the normal-sized cars serving inner-city routes.
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Beit Sira is 20 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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