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Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict.

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
Ghuwayr Abu Shusha · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 21, 1948. It was located 8 km north of Tiberias, nearby Wadi Rubadiyya.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

7 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
    Mount Arbel

    Mount Arbel is a mountain in the Lower Galilee near Tiberias in Israel, with high cliffs, views of Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights, a cave-fortress, and ruins of an ancient synagogue. The mountain was formed by geological processes leading to the creation of the Jordan Rift Valley.

    3.4 km · Israeli mountain in The Lower Galilee near Tiberias · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Khirbat al-Minya

    Khirbet Minya, also known as Qasr al-Minya or Ayn Minyat Hisham in Arabic and Horvat/Hurvat Minnim in Hebrew, is an Umayyad-built qasr in eastern Galilee, Israel, about 200 meters west of the northern end of Lake Tiberias. It was erected as a qasr complex, with a palace, mosque, and bath built by a single patron.

    3 km · 8th-century Islamic palace in Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Zuttiyeh

    Mugharet el-Zuttiyeh, also called as the "Skull Cave", is a prehistoric archaeological site in Upper Galilee, Israel. It is situated 2,900 m from the Nahal Amud outlet, approximately 30 m above the wadi bed below sea level).

    1.9 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.1 km · cave · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mount Nitai

    Mount Nitai, sometimes spelled Nitay, is a mountain in Israel situated west of the Sea of Galilee and north of the city of Tiberias. Har Nitai is named after Nittai of Arbela.

    3.8 km · mountain in Israel · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Migdal Synagogue

    The Migdal Synagogue or Magdala Synagogue is an ancient former Jewish synagogue, discovered at the ancient city of Magdala, close to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, in northeastern Israel. It is one of few ancient former synagogues that were in use in the Second Temple period, which places them among the oldest synagogues found in Israel.

    3 km · Archaeology site in Israel of ancient Magdala, · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Khirbet Wadi Hamam

    Khirbet Wadi Hammam is an archaeological site in the Lower Galilee, at the foot of Mount Nitai in northern Israel. It lies near the modern village of Wadi al-Hammam, close to the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.

    3.4 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Airports
Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 107 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 108 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 110 km
  • Beirut → Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
    146 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · $28–38
  • Amman → Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · JD5–7
  • Tel Aviv → Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · ₪32–42
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Jenin (and consequently Nablus and Ramallah) you can take a shared taxi (sherut/serviis) or hitch-hike to the border north (₪5-15 depending on the start) and cross on foot.

From Wikivoyage: Tiberias, 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

    281 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    365 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    494 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    654 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,027 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha is 46 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Magdalaancient city, biblical location1.6 km
  • Kinneretancient city800 m
  • Migdalhuman settlement in Israel1.8 km
  • Hamaamhuman settlement in Israel3.1 km
  • Al-Majdalvillage in Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine3.4 km
  • Livnimhuman settlement in Israel1.5 km