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Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa

Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa is a Palestinian town located sixteen kilometers west of Hebron.The town is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank.

Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa
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The place

Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa is a Palestinian town located sixteen kilometers west of Hebron.The town is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,859 in 2017.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa

One place 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
    Tell Beit Mirsim

    Tell Beit Mirsim is an archaeological site in central Israel, on the border between the lowlands of Shfela and Mount Hebron. It is located in the eastern region of Lachish about 20 kilometers southwest of Hebron and about 13 kilometers southeast of Lachish.

    3 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia

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Getting to Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 61 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 104 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 114 km
  • Tel Aviv → Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · ₪29–39
  • Eilat → Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa
    213 km · quickest by road, 4h 47m · ₪90–120
  • Amman → Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa
    110 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · JD6–8
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa

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-'Asal al-Fauqa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt is difficult for the individual traveler to reach Israel by boat, and there are no regular ferries.
  • Get aroundA sherut (Hebrew for service) or servees (Arabic) is a shared taxi that seats more than four people (the usual occupancy is ten).
  • Get aroundTo differentiate from a shared taxi (sherut), a regular Israel taxi is sometimes called special (using the English word).
  • Get aroundHitchhiking is more accepted in rural areas, particularly sparsely populated areas like the Golan Heights or between smaller towns in the West Bank that have little bus service, than in cities.
  • Get aroundLocal West Bank settlers rely heavily on hitch-hiking for transportation.

From Wikivoyage: Israel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

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  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

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Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa is 43 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.