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Kafr Mandā

Kafr Manda or Kfar Menda is an Arab town in the Lower Galilee, on the slopes of Mount Atzmon in Israel's Northern District.

Kafr Mandā
Kafr Mandā · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kafr Manda or Kfar Menda is an Arab town in the Lower Galilee, on the slopes of Mount Atzmon in Israel's Northern District. Kafr Manda is 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) northwest of the city of Nazareth. In 2024 its population was 22,268. The inhabitants are predominantly Arab Muslims.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kafr Mandā

4 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
    Siege of Yodfat

    The siege of Yodfat was a 47-day siege by Roman forces of the Jewish town of Yodfat which took place in 67 CE, during the Great Revolt. Led by Roman General Vespasian and his son Titus, both future emperors, the siege ended with the sacking of the town, the deaths of most of its inhabitants and the enslavement of the rest.

    2 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mount Atzmon

    Mount Atzmon is the modern Israeli name of a mountain in the Northern District of Israel, identified by some with the ancient Mount Atzmon. Its Arabic name is Jebel Didiba or Jebel Didbeh.

    800 m · mountain in Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tel Hanaton

    Tel Hanaton is an archaeological tell situated at the western edge of the Beit Netofa Valley, in the western Lower Galilee region of Israel, 2 kilometres south of the Town of Kfar Manda and 1 kilometre northeast of the kibbutz which took its name, Hanaton.

    3.6 km · mountain in Israel · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Khirbet Qana

    Khirbet Qana, is an archaeological site in the Lower Galilee of Israel. It has remains of a settlement from the Hellenistic period to the Early Arab period.

    3.4 km · archaeological site in Northern District, Israel · 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.

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Getting to Kafr Mandā

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 96 km · Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 113 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 116 km
  • Tel Aviv → Kafr Mandā
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · ₪37–50
  • Eilat → Kafr Mandā
    363 km · quickest by road, 7h 2m · ₪145–190
  • Amman → Kafr Mandā
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · JD6–8
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kafr Mandā

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTaxis or hitchhiking can be a good solution for the "last mile" after you get off the bus at the closest stop on the main road.
  • Get aroundHitch-hiking is definitely an option and easy along the non-highway roads, also where buses are sparse.
  • Get aroundJewish Israelis are more wary nowadays, which in other parts of the country can be an issue when hitch-hiking.

From Wikivoyage: Lower Galilee, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    278 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    361 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    486 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    639 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,009 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kafr Mandā