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Beita, Nablus

Beita is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank located 13 kilometers (8.1 mi) southeast of Nablus.

Beita, Nablus
Beita, Nablus · Alon Marcus
The place

Beita is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank located 13 kilometers (8.1 mi) southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 11,682 in 2017. It consists of five clans which branch out to thirty families. There are many houses dating back to the Roman era. The current mayor, elected in 2004 is Arab ash-Shurafa.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Beita, Nablus

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
    Mount Sabih

    Mount Sabih is a mountain located between 3 Palestinian villages, Qabalan, Yatma and Beita, south of Nablus. Mount Sabih has several peaks, the highest most southern of which was occupied in May 2021 by settlers who established an illegal Israeli outpost named Evyatar.

    2.9 km · Mountain in Nablus · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Khirbet el Urma

    Khirbet el-'Ormeh, in Hebrew Horvat Ormah, is an archaeological site located in the West Bank, around ten kilometers southeast of the Palestinian city of Nablus. The site contains the remains of a Hasmonean-Herodian fortress consisting of a fortification wall, rectangular towers constructed in the Hellenistic style, and a series of large cisterns for storing rainwater.

    3.2 km · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia

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Getting to Beita, Nablus

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 41 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 69 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 81 km
  • Tel Aviv → Beita, Nablus
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · ₪19–26
  • Eilat → Beita, Nablus
    289 km · quickest by road, 6h 28m · ₪125–165
  • Amman → Beita, Nablus
    66 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · JD5–6
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Beita, Nablus

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Ben Gurion it is cheapest to take a "sherut" (shared taxi) to the bus station on Nablus Road by Damascus Gate, and then follow the directions above to Nablus.
  • Go nextShared minibus taxis (sherut/servees) leaving Nablus tend to congregate around the center of town and along the two-sided Al-Gazalah (Al-Hadadeen) Street going southeast out of town.
  • Go nextTo get there by hitchhiking, take a sherut to Tubas (₪7.50) and from there hitchhike east through Tayasir and Aqabah to the highway #578 or #90, and then north past the Israeli checkpoint.

From Wikivoyage: Nablus, 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

    203 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    286 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    412 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    688 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,051 km

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Around it

Next door to Beita, Nablus

Beita, Nablus is 40 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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