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Place in Northern Israel · Northern District

# Kfar Szold

Kfar Szold is a kibbutz in northern Israel.

![Kfar Szold](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Kfar_Szold_1889.JPG/1920px-Kfar_Szold_1889.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

Kfar Szold · יעקב

The place

Kfar Szold is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Hula Valley in the Galilee Panhandle, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 720.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Szold), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Kfar Szold

5 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. Tel Anafa Tel Anafa (Hebrew: תל אנפה, lit. "Egret hill" Arabic: تل الأخضر, romanized: Tel el-Hader, lit. 2.3 km · hill in Northern District, Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Anafa)
2. Tel Azaziat Tel Azaziat is a hill in the foothills of the Golan Heights in northern Israel, 330 m above sea level, 1.5 km east of moshav She'ar Yashuv, 1.5 km south east of kibbutz Dan and 2 km west of Tel Faher. The basalt hill was a Syrian military outpost built within the DMZ, used to shell the Israeli villages below. 3.5 km · mountain in the Golan hights · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Azaziat)
3. Givat HaEm Giv'at Ha'Em is a hill named for American Zionist leader Henrietta Szold, known as the mother of Youth Aliya. The hill lies in the Galilee Panhandle in northern Israel, 196 m above sea level, 1 km east of the Route 918 and 2 km north of Kfar Szold. 1.7 km · mountain in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givat_HaEm)
4. Hurshat Tal Hurshat Tal is a national park and nature reserve in the Northern District of Israel. 3.8 km · national park and nature reserve in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurshat_Tal)
5. Omrit Omrit, or Khirbat ‘Umayrī, is the site of an ancient Roman temple. It stands where the western slopes of the Golan Heights meet the Upper Jordan Valley, in the 1949 Israel–Syria demilitarised zone, not far from Banias. 2.6 km · Archaeological site of an ancient Roman temple in northern Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omrit)

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 Szold

**Airports:** Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 71 km · Damascus (DAM), 83 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 140 km\

- Tel Aviv → Kfar Szold 149 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · ₪60–85 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tel-aviv-to-kfar-szold) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=Kfar+Szold)
- Eilat → Kfar Szold 410 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · ₪500–770 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eilat-to-kfar-szold) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eilat&to=Kfar+Szold)
- Beirut → Kfar Szold 79 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · $20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/beirut-to-kfar-szold) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Beirut&to=Kfar+Szold)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Kfar%20Szold)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Kfar Szold

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in Charter airlines can still make the trip for you, but commercial flight service no longer operates.
- Get around Hitch-hiking is also accepted and possible.

From [Wikivoyage: Galilee Panhandle](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Galilee_Panhandle), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 320 km
2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 403 km
3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 534 km
4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 645 km
5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,021 km

If you know how people move in Kfar Szold – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ckfar-szold&title=Kfar+Szold&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fkfar-szold), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Kfar Szold

- [She'ar Yashuv](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shear-yashuv) human settlement in Israel 3.6 km
- [Al-'Abisiyya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-abisiyya) village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine 2.3 km
- [Al-Mansura, Safad](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-mansura-safad) village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine 2.8 km
- [Madahil](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/madahil) village in Safad, Israel 1.8 km

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