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Deir Sammit

Deir Sammit is a Palestinian town located eight kilometers west of Hebron.

Deir Sammit
Deir Sammit · יעקב
The place

Deir Sammit is a Palestinian town located eight 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 8,114 in 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Deir Sammit

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.

  1. 01
    Khirbet el-Qom

    Khirbet el-Qom is an archaeological site in the village of al-Kum, West Bank, in the territory of the biblical Kingdom of Judah, between Lachish and Hebron, 14 km to the west of the latter.

    1.5 km · archaeological tomb-site in the territory of the biblical kingdom of Judah, between Lachish and Hebron · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Khirbet el-Muraq

    Khirbet el-Muraq, also known as Hilkiyah's Palace or Palace of Helcias, is an archaeological site located in the southern West Bank, in a transitional zone between the Hebron Hills and the Judaean Lowlands. The site features a mansion dating primarily to the Herodian and early Roman periods.

    800 m · herodian-era mansion in the southern West Bank · 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 Sammit

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 55 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 99 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 108 km
  • Tel Aviv → Deir Sammit
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · ₪30–40
  • Eilat → Deir Sammit
    218 km · quickest by road, 4h 55m · ₪90–120
  • Amman → Deir Sammit
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · JD6–8
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Deir Sammit

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 Sammit. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextNearby popular sights in the West Bank, that allow for a day trip from Hebron, include Tor-Safa Cave, Taffuh Underground Church, Tomb of Prophet Lot and Birkat al-Karmil (Holy Pool).

From Wikivoyage: Hebron, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    141 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    221 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    339 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    715 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,067 km

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

Around it

Next door to Deir Sammit

Deir Sammit is 36 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • As SimiyaPalestinian village in Hebron Governorate500 m
  • Idnamunicipality in Hebron Governorate4 km
  • NegohotIsraeli settlement on the occupied Palestinian West Bank3.4 km
  • Beit Awwamunicipality in Hebron Governorate2.8 km
  • al-Kumvillage council in Hebron Governorate1.6 km