Birzeit
Birzeit, also Bir Zeit, is a Palestinian Christian town north of Ramallah, in the West Bank.
Birzeit, also Bir Zeit, is a Palestinian Christian town north of Ramallah, in the West Bank. Its population in the 2017 census was 5,878. Birzeit is home to Birzeit University and to the Birzeit Brewery.
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Worth seeing in and around Birzeit
4 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.
- 01Birzeit University
Birzeit University is a public university in the West Bank, Palestine, registered by the Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs as a charitable organization. It is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education and located in the outskirts of Birzeit, near Ramallah.
2.1 km · public university in the West Bank, State of Palestine · Wikipedia - 02The Palestinian Museum
The Palestinian Museum is a museum in Birzeit, in the West Bank, Palestine, that was inaugurated on 18 May 2016. It is a flagship project of the Welfare Association, a non-profit organization for developing humanitarian projects in Palestine.
1.5 km · museum in Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia - 03Palestinian National Library
The Palestinian National Library is a national library located in Ramallah, in the West Bank, Palestine. It was also known as the National Library of Palestine.
4.3 km · national library located in Ramallah, West Bank · Wikipedia - 04Maqam Sheikh al-Qatrawani
The Maqam Sheikh al-Qatrawani is an Islamic shrine, located on the Dahrat Hamoud hill about 1.5 km south-west of Atara in the State of Palestine. The maqam was first established during the Mamluk rule over Palestine as one of a series of 16th-century watchtowers overlooking the nearby coast.
2.4 km · tomb-shrine in Atara, West Bank · Wikipedia
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Getting to Birzeit
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 29 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 75 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 80 km
- Eilat → Birzeit269 km · quickest by road, 6h 11m · ₪110–145
- Amman → Birzeit71 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · JD4–5
- El Arish → Birzeit162 km · quickest by road, 5h 8m · E£395–520
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No local-transport research exists yet for Birzeit
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 Birzeit. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Bethlehem take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the Bethlehem bus station at Manger St.
- Get inFrom Jericho take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the central roundabout with the garden in the middle.
- Get aroundAs the city center is relatively small, it is not hard to walk to most destinations downtown (including the old city.) Service shuttles (shared taxis) are also available from downtown to most suburbs and to the outskirts of the city at relatively low prices (₪2.5 inside the city and up to ₪6 to nearby towns and villages).
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Next door to Birzeit
Birzeit is 21 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rawabicity in the Palestinian National Authority4.3 km
- Beit ElIsraeli settlement in the West Bank4.2 km
- Jifnavillage council in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate2.2 km
- Abu Qashmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate2.6 km
- 'AtaraPalestinian village3.5 km
- Ein Yabrudmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, Palestine5.7 km