Dayr al-Hawa
Dayr al-Hawa was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict.
Dayr al-Hawa was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948, by the Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 18.5 km west of Jerusalem.
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Worth seeing in and around Dayr al-Hawa
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.
- 01Avshalom Cave
Avshalom Cave, known in academic literature as Soreq Cave and popularly as Stalactites Cave, is a 5,000 m2 cave on the western side of Mt. Ye'ela, in the Judean hills in Israel, known for its dense concentration of stalactites and other cave formations.
1.4 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Ha-Teomim cave
The Te'omim Cave, or the Twins Cave, Arabic name Mughâret Umm et-Tûeimîn, is a karstic cave within a nature reserve in Israel located on the western edges of the Jerusalem Mountains, in the vicinity of Beit Shemesh. The Te'omim Cave is a central highlight along a 3 kilometers walking trail regarded as one of the most renowned and popular touristic sites in the area.
3 km · cave and nature reserve in Israel · Wikipedia - 03Biblical Museum of Natural History
The Biblical Museum of Natural History, currently located in Hartuv at the entrance to Beit Shemesh, Israel, was founded in 2014 by Rabbi Dr.
4 km · museum in Beit Shemesh, Israel · Wikipedia - 04Scroll of Fire
Scroll of Fire is a monument found in the Forest of the Martyrs, on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. It commemorates Jewish history from The Holocaust until the independence of the State of Israel in 1948.
2.4 km · monument to Jewish history · Wikipedia - 05Tur Shimon
Tur Shimon or Horvat Tura, the Hebraized form of Khirbet et-Tantura, so-called after the shape of the hill, is an archaeological site in Nahal Sorek, Israel. The mountain is built like a natural fortress.
2.3 km · archaeological site in 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.
Getting to Dayr al-Hawa
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 32 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 90 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 93 km
- Eilat → Dayr al-HawaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Amman → Dayr al-HawaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- El Arish → Dayr al-HawaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Dayr al-Hawa
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 Dayr al-Hawa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHitchhiking (described below) can be difficult if you have a suitcase.
- Get inIf you prefer to hitchhike, take the 31 or 32 local buses to the trempiada (see below).
- Get inIf you don't have a car, the fastest, cheapest and easiest travel option is hitchhiking, or in Israeli English, "to catch a tremp".
- Get inThe main hitchhiking hub is in the southern exit from Jerusalem, a place called "Tzomet HaMinharot", or informally the trempiada.
- Get inFrom here you can get another tremp to a specific settlement, although many Israelis consider it unsafe to hitchhike here (in the past, it has been the site of kidnappings and shootings by Palestinians).
From Wikivoyage: Gush Etzion, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Dayr al-Hawa is 17 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.