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Deir al-Asad

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

Deir al-Asad
Deir al-Asad · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Amud 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
  2. 02
    ORT 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
  3. 03
    Hope (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
  4. 04
    Horvat 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

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 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-Asad
    109 km · quickest by road, 5h 14m · $21–29
  • Amman → Deir al-Asad
    126 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · JD7–9
  • Tel Aviv → Deir al-Asad
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · ₪44–60
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    289 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    372 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    497 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    632 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,004 km

If you know how people move in Deir al-Asad – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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  • Lavonhuman settlement in Israel2.8 km
  • GilonIsraeli village3.9 km
  • Pelekhhuman settlement in Israel3.9 km