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Hermesh

Hermesh is an Israeli settlement in the western Samarian hills of the West Bank.

Hermesh
Hermesh · המכללה האקדמית ספיר
The place

Hermesh is an Israeli settlement in the western Samarian hills of the West Bank. Founded in 1984, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 295.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hermesh

One place 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-Hammam

    Khirbet el-Hammam is an archaeological site in the northwestern Samarian hills, in the modern-day West Bank. The tell preserves the remains of a fortified town occupied from the Iron Age until the early Roman period.

    2.1 km · Archaeological site · Wikipedia

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Getting to Hermesh

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 51 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 96 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 113 km
  • Tel Aviv → Hermesh
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · ₪27–36
  • Eilat → Hermesh
    319 km · quickest by road, 6h 39m · ₪135–180
  • Amman → Hermesh
    94 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · JD6–8
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hermesh

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

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    236 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    318 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    440 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    655 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,021 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hermesh

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