Ishwa
Ishwa' was a Palestinian village which was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Ishwa' was a Palestinian village which was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The village was located about 20 km west of Jerusalem, on the present location of Eshta'ol. In the 1931 British census of Palestine, Ishwa had a population of 468 in 126 houses. The village was occupied by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on July 16, 1948, in Operation Dani by the Harel Brigade. All of its inhabitants fled or were expelled.
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Worth seeing in and around Ishwa
3 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.
- 01Avshalom Cave
Avshalom Cave, known in academic literature as Soreq Cave and popularly as Stalactites Cave, is a 5,000 m2 cave on the western side of Mt. Ye'ela, in the Judean hills in Israel, known for its dense concentration of stalactites and other cave formations.
3 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Biblical Museum of Natural History
The Biblical Museum of Natural History, currently located in Hartuv at the entrance to Beit Shemesh, Israel, was founded in 2014 by Rabbi Dr.
3.3 km · museum in Beit Shemesh, Israel · Wikipedia - 03Scroll of Fire
Scroll of Fire is a monument found in the Forest of the Martyrs, on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. It commemorates Jewish history from The Holocaust until the independence of the State of Israel in 1948.
3.2 km · monument to Jewish history · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ishwa
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 28 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 93 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 95 km
- Stations
- Beit Shemesh Railway Station, 3.2 km
- Eilat → IshwaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Amman → Ishwa3909 km · quickest by air, 14h 25m · JD2,280–2,930
- El Arish → Ishwa4127 km · quickest by air, 14h 57m · E£19,990–30,370
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ishwa
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 Ishwa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Ishwa
Ishwa is 19 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Beit Shemeshcity in Israel3.9 km
- Beit Meirhuman settlement in Israel2.9 km
- Bayt Mahsirvillage in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine2.7 km
- Tarumsettlement in Israel2.7 km
- Sar'avillage in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine2.3 km
- Bayt Susinvillage in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine3.9 km