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Hatzor HaGlilit

Hatzor HaGlilit is a town in the Korazim Plateau in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel near Rosh Pinna and Safed.

Hatzor HaGlilit
Hatzor HaGlilit · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Hatzor HaGlilit is a town in the Korazim Plateau in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel near Rosh Pinna and Safed. It is named for the nearby biblical site of Tel Hazor. In 2024 it had a population of 11,013.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hatzor HaGlilit

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
    Nabratein synagogue

    The Nabratein synagogue or Navoraya synagogue is a former ancient synagogue and archaeological site, located in a pine forest northeast of Safed, in the Upper Galilee region of the Northern District of Israel.

    2.9 km · ancient synagogue and archaeological site · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Birya Fortress

    Birya Fortress is a fortress built by the Jewish Palmach paramilitary during the British Mandate near the Jewish village of Birya and the Arab village of Biriyya. In 1946 the Birya affair took place here.

    3.5 km · fortress built during the British Mandate, near the modern town of Birya · 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.

Go there

Getting to Hatzor HaGlilit

Airports
Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 94 km · Damascus (DAM), 102 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 120 km
Stations
Rosh Pina Airport, 2.6 km
  • Beirut → Hatzor HaGlilit
    102 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · $19–26
  • Amman → Hatzor HaGlilit
    120 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · JD6–8
  • Damascus → Hatzor HaGlilit
    91 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · $11–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hatzor HaGlilit

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextSafed is an ideal location for basing many day trips in the northern area of Israel.

From Wikivoyage: Safed, 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

    295 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    379 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    508 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    649 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,023 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hatzor HaGlilit

Hatzor HaGlilit is 55 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.