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'En Esur

'En Esur, also En Esur or Ein Asawir, is an ancient site located on the northern Sharon Plain, at the entrance of the Wadi Ara pass leading from the Coastal Plain further inland.

'En Esur
'En Esur · Wikimedia Commons
The place

'En Esur, also En Esur or Ein Asawir, is an ancient site located on the northern Sharon Plain, at the entrance of the Wadi Ara pass leading from the Coastal Plain further inland. The site includes an archaeological mound (tell), called Tel Esur or Tell el-Asawir, another unnamed mound, and two springs, one of which gives the site its name.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around 'En Esur

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
    Khirbat Al-Burj

    Khirbat Al-Burj was a former Palestinian village, depopulated in 1948. Presently, Khirbat Al-Burj (lit.

    8 km · historic site in Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tel Zeror

    Tel Zeror is an archaeological tel on the Sharon Plain, approximately four km east of Hadera, SE of Kibbutz Gan Shmuel and south of Moshav Talmei Elazar. The tel, unconventionally, has two peaks, and between them is a field.

    7.5 km · archaeological site in Haifa District, Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tel Burga

    Tel Burga is an archaeological site in the Sharon Plain, 1 kilometre east of Binyamina, Israel. The site was excavated in 2004 on behalf of the Israeli Antiquities Authority.

    6.8 km · archaeological site in Binyamina-Giv'at Ada, Israel · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Al-Qasemi Academic College

    The Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education is an academic college located in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in the Haifa District in Israel. The College was founded in 1989 as a college for Sharia and Islamic Studies, is authorized by the Council for Higher Education in Israel and specializes in the following fields: Islamic Studies, Arabic Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Mathematics and Computers in the elementary and secondary tracks, Early Childhood Education track, Special Education track.

    6.9 km · Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education · 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 'En Esur

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 54 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 108 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 125 km
Stations
Ein Shemer Airfield, 5.3 km · Caesarea – Pardes Hanna Railway Station, 6.1 km · Binyamina Railway Station, 7.4 km · Hadera East railway station, 7.6 km
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for 'En Esur

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHitchhiking to or Caesarea is possible and rather easy.

From Wikivoyage: Caesarea, 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

    244 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    446 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    644 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,009 km

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Around it

Next door to 'En Esur

'En Esur is 50 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.