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Bir Salim

Bir Salim was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine.

Bir Salim
Bir Salim · James McBey
The place

Bir Salim was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 9, 1948, by the Givati Brigade. It was located 4 km west of Ramla.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bir Salim

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
    Weizmann Institute of Science

    The Weizmann Institute of Science is a postgraduate university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It was established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded.

    2.7 km · research institute in Rehovot, Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    White mosque

    The White Mosque was an Umayyad-era mosque, now in partial ruins, located in Ramle, in central Israel. Only its minaret is still standing.

    3.6 km · mosque in Ramla, Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Machon Ayalon

    The Ayalon Institute was an underground ammunition factory, located on Kibbutz Hill in Rehovot, Israel, disguised as a kibbutz that ran a laundry service. The factory was established in 1945 and manufactured ammunition until 1948; today it is a museum and national historical site.

    2.1 km · historical site in Rehovot, Israel · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ramla Municipal Stadium

    Ramla Municipal Stadium, officially known as Toto Stadium Ramla, is a football stadium in Ramla, Israel. The stadium was renovated ahead of the 2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, in which the stadium hosted 3 matches.

    3.6 km · football stadium in Ramla · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Weizmann Institute Particle Accelerator

    The Koffler particle accelerator of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, was built in 1976. The building became a symbol of the institute.

    2.5 km · tower in Rehovot, 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 Bir Salim

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 11 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 110 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 112 km
Stations
Rishon LeZion – HaRishonim Railway Station, 3.6 km · Be'er Ya'akov Railway Station, 800 m · Rehovot Railway Station, 2.8 km · Ramla South train station, 3.5 km
  • Eilat → Bir Salim
    859 km · quickest by road, 15h 57m · ₪345–455
  • Amman → Bir Salim
    577 km · quickest by road, 11h · JD27–35
  • El Arish → Bir Salim
    766 km · quickest by air, 10h 15m · E£7,200–11,090
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bir Salim

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 Bir Salim. 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

    188 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    268 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    383 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    673 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,029 km

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Around it

Next door to Bir Salim

Bir Salim is 18 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.