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Kfar Hananya

Kfar Hananya is a community settlement in the Galilee in northern Israel under the administration of the Merom HaGalil Regional Council.

Kfar Hananya
Kfar Hananya · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kfar Hananya is a community settlement in the Galilee in northern Israel under the administration of the Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 776.The village marks the border between the historic Upper and Lower Galilee regions. Lower Galilee is defined in the Mishnah as the area south of Kfar Hananya where the Sycamore Fig tree grows.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kfar Hananya

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
    Rujum en-Nabi Shu'ayb

    Rujum en-Nabi Shu'ayb or Jethro's Cairn is an ancient megalithic monument, consisting of a crescent shaped heap of field stones, located some 15 kilometers from the Sea of Galilee on a fairly inaccessible hillside below Parod in Northern Israel. It has been measured as 14,000 cubic meters in volume and about 150 meters long, making it visible from satellite photos.

    2.7 km · archaeological site · 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 Kfar Hananya

Airports
Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 101 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 112 km · Damascus (DAM), 116 km
  • Beirut → Kfar Hananya
    109 km · quickest by road, 4h 57m · $20–28
  • Amman → Kfar Hananya
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · JD6–8
  • Tel Aviv → Kfar Hananya
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · ₪48–65
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kfar Hananya

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 Kfar Hananya. 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

    288 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    372 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    499 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    644 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,016 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kfar Hananya

Kfar Hananya is 57 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • MagharArab-Druze city in Israel3.2 km
  • Amirimhuman settlement in Israel3.7 km
  • Kafr 'InanPalestinian village depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War900 m
  • Farradiyyavillage in Safad, Mandatory Palestine1.8 km
  • Ein al-Asadhuman settlement in Israel3.7 km
  • Sheferhuman settlement in Israel3.4 km