Deir al-Asad
Deir al-Asad is an Arab village in the Galilee region of Israel, near Karmiel.

Deir al-Asad is an Arab village in the Galilee region of Israel, near Karmiel.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Deir al-Asad
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.
- 01Amud cave
Amud Cave is located in the Upper Galilee, in the Nahal Amud gorge. It is situated about 30 m above Nahal Amud, right next to and above the famous pillar for which Nahal Amud is named.
3.7 km · cave · Wikipedia - 02ORT Braude College of Engineering
Braude Academic College of Engineering is a college in the city of Karmiel, Israel.
1.2 km · University in Karmiel, Israel · Wikipedia - 03Hope (Imber)
The Hope is a sculpture by Nicky Imber depicting a woman proudly raising her child to the sky symbolically heralding a new generation. It is named after the Israeli national anthem, "Hatikva" and is part of the Holocaust Memorial Park entitled "From Holocaust to Resurrection", located in Karmiel, Israel.
2.8 km · sculpture by Nicky Imber · Wikipedia - 04Horvat Tefen
Horvat Tefen or Qal'at et-Tufaniya, alternatively Tefen Fortress, is an archaeological site in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel. Located on a mountain ridge approximately 16 kilometres from the coastal city of Acre, the site contains the remains of a short-lived hilltop fort dating to the early 1st century BCE. Excavations conducted in 2019 have made it possible to identify the site as a Hasmonean military installation.
3.9 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Deir al-Asad
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 102 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 107 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 125 km
- Stations
- Karmiel railway station, 2.5 km
- Beirut → Deir al-Asad109 km · quickest by road, 5h 14m · $21–29
- Amman → Deir al-Asad126 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · JD7–9
- Tel Aviv → Deir al-Asad105 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · ₪44–60
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Deir al-Asad
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 Deir al-Asad. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHitch-hiking is definitely an option and easy along the non-highway roads, also where buses are sparse.
- Get aroundJewish Israelis are more wary nowadays, which in other parts of the country can be an issue when hitch-hiking.
From Wikivoyage: Upper Galilee, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Deir al-Asad – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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