Mallaha
Mallaha was a Palestinian Arab village, located 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) northeast of Safed, on the highway between the latter and Tiberias.
Mallaha was a Palestinian Arab village, located 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) northeast of Safed, on the highway between the latter and Tiberias. 'Ain Mallaha is the local Arabic name for a spring that served as the water source for the village inhabitants throughout the ages. It is also one of the names used in English to refer to the ancient Natufian era settlement at the site.
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Worth seeing in and around Mallaha
2 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.
- 01ʿAin Mallaha
ʿAin Mallaha or Eynan was an Epipalaeolithic settlement belonging to the Natufian culture, occupied circa 14,326–12,180 cal. BP. The settlement is an example of hunter-gatherer sedentism, a crucial step in the transition from foraging to farming.
400 m · prehistoric site in Israel · Wikipedia - 02HaReut Museum
The HaReut Museum is a museum by the Metzudat Koach, Israel, dedicated to the commemoration of the battles for the fort during the 1948 Palestine war. The Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel declared the museum to be a heritage site.
3.7 km · (also "Nabi Yusha fort") memorial, commemorates 28 soldiers who died during the 1948 conquest of a strategically important fort · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mallaha
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 82 km · Damascus (DAM), 94 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 130 km
- Beirut → Mallaha130 km · quickest by road, 4h 45m · $19–27
- Damascus → Mallaha111 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · $12–16
- Amman → Mallaha93 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · JD5–6
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mallaha
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 Mallaha. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCharter airlines can still make the trip for you, but commercial flight service no longer operates.
- Get aroundHitch-hiking is also accepted and possible.
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Next door to Mallaha
- Ramot Naftalihuman settlement in Israel3 km
- Al-Nabi Yusha'village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine3.5 km
- Baysamunvillage in Safad, Mandatory Palestine900 m
- HarrawiPalestinian village near Safad, depopulated in 19482.3 km
- Al-'Ulmaniyyavillage in Safad, Mandatory Palestine2 km
- Arab al-Zubaydvillage in Safad, Mandatory Palestine1.8 km