Deir Rafat
Deir Rafat, also known as the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Palestine and of the Holy Land, is a Catholic monastery in central Israel.
Deir Rafat, also known as the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Palestine and of the Holy Land, is a Catholic monastery in central Israel. Located to the north-west of Beit Shemesh, between Givat Shemesh and kibbutz Tzora to the south and Kfar Uria to the north, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2024, it had a population of 86.
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Worth seeing in and around Deir Rafat
2 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.
- 01Timnah
Timnath or Timnah was a Philistine city in Canaan that is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Judges 14 and in connection with Samson. Modern archaeologists identify the ancient site with a tell lying on a flat, alluvial plain, located in the Sorek Valley ca.
3.6 km · archaeological site · Wikipedia - 02Tel Bet Shemesh
Tel Beit Shemesh is a small archaeological tell north west of the modern city of Beit Shemesh. It was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh – it then was known as Ain Shams – by Edward Robinson.
3.9 km · hill in Jerusalem District, Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Deir Rafat
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 27 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 99 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 101 km
- Eilat → Deir Rafat247 km · quickest by road, 5h 23m · ₪105–135
- Amman → Deir Rafat96 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · JD5–7
- El Arish → Deir Rafat131 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · E£325–430
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No local-transport research exists yet for Deir Rafat
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 Rafat. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Deir Rafat
Deir Rafat is 26 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.