Maghār
Maghar also al-Maghar or Mghar, is a city of mixed population of Muslims, Christians, and Druze in the Northern District of Israel, with an area of 19,810 dunams.
Maghar also al-Maghar or Mghar, is a city of mixed population of Muslims, Christians, and Druze in the Northern District of Israel, with an area of 19,810 dunams. Maghar was given the status of a local council in 1956, and of a city in 2021. In 2024 it had a population of 23,486. Its population consists of 56.9% Druze, 21.8% Muslims, and 21.3% Christians.
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Worth seeing in and around Maghār
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.
- 01Har HaAri
Har HaAri is a mountain in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel.
8.2 km · mountain in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Doha Stadium
Doha Stadium is the current home of Bnei Sakhnin.
9.5 km · football stadium in Sakhnin · Wikipedia - 03Amud cave
Amud Cave is located in the Upper Galilee, in the Nahal Amud gorge. It is situated about 30 m above Nahal Amud, right next to and above the famous pillar for which Nahal Amud is named.
8.9 km · cave · Wikipedia - 04Rujum 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.
5.8 km · archaeological site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Maghār
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 104 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 109 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 116 km
- Tel Aviv → Maghār107 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · ₪46–60
- Eilat → Maghār373 km · quickest by road, 7h 28m · ₪150–200
- Amman → Maghār115 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · JD6–8
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No local-transport research exists yet for Maghār
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 Maghār. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextSafed is an ideal location for basing many day trips in the northern area of Israel.
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Next door to Maghār
Maghār is 56 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.