Har Brakha
Har Brakha, more commonly spelled Har Bracha is an Israeli settlement located on the southern ridge of Mount Gerizim at an elevation of 870 metres above sea level, in the West Bank's Samarian Mountains, near the Palestinian city of Nablus.
Har Brakha, more commonly spelled Har Bracha is an Israeli settlement located on the southern ridge of Mount Gerizim at an elevation of 870 metres above sea level, in the West Bank's Samarian Mountains, near the Palestinian city of Nablus. Har Brakha is named after one of the two mountains that are mentioned in Deuteronomy on which half of the twelve tribes of Israel ascended in order to pronounce blessings, and shares the Mount Gerizim ridge with Kiryat Luza, the main Samaritan village. It is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 3,486.
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Worth seeing in and around Har Brakha
10 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.
- 01Mount Gerizim
Mount Gerizim is one of two mountains near the Palestinian city of Nablus and the biblical city of Shechem, located in the north of Palestine's West Bank. It forms the southern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the northern side being formed by Mount Ebal.
1 km · mountain in Judea and Samaria Area, Palestine · Wikipedia - 02Joseph's Tomb
Joseph's Tomb is a funerary monument located in Balata village at the eastern entrance to the valley that separates Mounts Gerizim and Ebal, 300 m northwest of Jacob's Well, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus. It has been venerated throughout the ages by Samaritans, for whom it is the second holiest site; by Jews; by Christians; and by Muslims, some of whom view it as the location of a local sheikh, Yusef al-Dwaik or Dawiqat, who died in the 18th century.
2.9 km · funerary monument in Shechem · Wikipedia - 03An-Najah National University
An-Najah National University is a non-governmental public university governed by a board of trustees in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. The university has 22,000 students and 300 professors in 19 faculties.
3.6 km · University in State of Palestine · Wikipedia - 04Great Mosque of Nablus
The Great Mosque of Nablus is the oldest and largest mosque in the city of Nablus, in the State of Palestine. It was originally built as a Byzantine church and was converted into a mosque during the early Islamic era.
2.8 km · mosque in Palestine · Wikipedia - 05An-Nasr Mosque
An-Nasr Mosque is a mosque located in Nablus, Palestine. It is situated in the central square of the Old City of Nablus and is donned as the "symbol of Nablus".
2.9 km · Mosque in Nablus, Palestine · Wikipedia - 06Al-Khadra Mosque
The Al-Khadra Mosque also known as Hizn Sidna Yaq'ub Mosque, is a mosque situated on the lower slopes of Mount Gerizim in the southwestern quarter of the Old City of Nablus in the West Bank of the State of Palestine.
2.2 km · mosque in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia - 07Tell Balata
Tell Balata is an archaeological site in the West Bank near Nablus, Palestine, that includes the remains of an ancient Canaanite city, associated since 1913 with the Biblical city of Shechem. The built-up area of Balata, a Palestinian village and suburb of Nablus, covers about one-third of the tell, and overlooks a vast plain to the east.
2.8 km · site of an ancient Canaanite/Israelite city in the West Bank · Wikipedia - 08Nablus Football Stadium
The Nablus Football Stadium is a football stadium in Nablus, Palestine. It has a capacity of 30,000.
3.8 km · football stadium in Nablus, Palestine · Wikipedia - 09Hanbali Mosque, Nablus
The Hanbali Mosque is a mosque in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. The mosque is situated off Jama'a Kabir Street, south of Martyr's Square, and west of the Great Mosque of Nablus.
3 km · mosque in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia - 10Manara Clock Tower
The Manara Clock Tower or al-Manura clock tower is a clock tower located in the middle of the central square in the Old City of Nablus next to the An-Nasr Mosque in the Palestine. Five stories high, it was erected in 1906 on the orders of the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II to celebrate 30 years of his reign.
2.9 km · Clock tower in Nablus, West Bank · Wikipedia
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Getting to Har Brakha
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 41 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 73 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 86 km
- Tel Aviv → Har Brakha47 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · ₪21–28
- Eilat → Har Brakha295 km · quickest by road, 6h 43m · ₪125–170
- Amman → Har Brakha69 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · JD5–7
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No local-transport research exists yet for Har Brakha
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 Har Brakha. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Ben Gurion it is cheapest to take a "sherut" (shared taxi) to the bus station on Nablus Road by Damascus Gate, and then follow the directions above to Nablus.
- Go nextShared minibus taxis (sherut/servees) leaving Nablus tend to congregate around the center of town and along the two-sided Al-Gazalah (Al-Hadadeen) Street going southeast out of town.
- Go nextTo get there by hitchhiking, take a sherut to Tubas (₪7.50) and from there hitchhike east through Tayasir and Aqabah to the highway #578 or #90, and then north past the Israeli checkpoint.
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Next door to Har Brakha
Har Brakha is 46 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Nabluscity in the West Bank, State of Palestine3.1 km
- Shechemancient Canaanite and Israelite city in central Samaria in the West Bank2.8 km
- Kiryat LuzaIsraelite Samaritan village near Nablus1.3 km
- YitzharIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3.9 km
- Burinmunicipality in Nablus1.7 km
- Kafr Qallilvillage council in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine1 km