Khirbat al-Simia
Khirbat al-Simia is a Palestinian village located four kilometers north-west of As-Samu .The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank.
Khirbat al-Simia is a Palestinian village located four kilometers north-west of As-Samu .The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,705 in mid-year 2006.
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Worth seeing in and around Khirbat al-Simia
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.
- 01Eshtemoa synagogue
The Eshtemoa synagogue is an ancient Jewish synagogue, dating from the late-Roman and Byzantine periods, uncovered in the modern town of as-Samu' in the southern Hebron Hills of the West Bank, Palestine. The synagogue is a rectangular building oriented roughly east–west, with an eastern exedra.
3.9 km · The synagogue of the Jewish community Eshtemoa in the Land of Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Khirbat al-Simia
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 67 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 97 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 109 km
- Tel Aviv → Khirbat al-Simia78 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · ₪34–45
- Eilat → Khirbat al-Simia207 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · ₪85–115
- Amman → Khirbat al-Simia104 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · JD6–8
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No local-transport research exists yet for Khirbat al-Simia
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 Khirbat al-Simia. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt is difficult for the individual traveler to reach Israel by boat, and there are no regular ferries.
- Get aroundA sherut (Hebrew for service) or servees (Arabic) is a shared taxi that seats more than four people (the usual occupancy is ten).
- Get aroundTo differentiate from a shared taxi (sherut), a regular Israel taxi is sometimes called special (using the English word).
- Get aroundHitchhiking is more accepted in rural areas, particularly sparsely populated areas like the Golan Heights or between smaller towns in the West Bank that have little bus service, than in cities.
- Get aroundLocal West Bank settlers rely heavily on hitch-hiking for transportation.
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Next door to Khirbat al-Simia
Khirbat al-Simia is 42 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- as-SamuMunicipality in Hebron Governorate. Its name preserves the name of the Jewish settlement, from biblical times to the 4th century, Eshtemoa. Identified as the biblical hearsay by the scholar Edward Robinson3.9 km
- Samu Incident1966 cross-border assault by the Israeli military on the village of Samu3.9 km
- Beit 'Amravillage council in Hebron Governorate3.5 km
- Rabudvillage council in Hebron Governorate2.1 km
- OtnielIsraeli settlement in the occupied West Bank2.1 km
- Karma, Hebronvillage council in Hebron Governorate3.5 km