Meithalun
Meithalun is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 26 kilometers south of Jenin.
Meithalun is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 26 kilometers south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the town had a population of 6,995 in 2007 and 8,321 by 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Meithalun
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.
- 01Mount Hureish
Mount Hureish is a mountain in the northern West Bank, part of the broader Jabal Nablus range. It abuts the Marj Sanur valley to the south and its peak is 764 metres above sea level, making it the tallest mountain in the Jenin area, and the sixth highest peak in the Palestine.
2.6 km · mountain in State of Palestine · Wikipedia - 02Khirbet Kheibar
Khirbet Kheibar or Tell Kheibar is an archaeological site located in the western outskirts of the Sanur Valley, West Bank. A fortified tell, it includes the remains of an ancient walled city that for some periods grew beyond the walls.
500 m · archaeological site in the West Bank · Wikipedia
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Getting to Meithalun
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 52 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 80 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 97 km
- Tel Aviv → Meithalun55 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · ₪26–35
- Eilat → Meithalun312 km · quickest by road, 6h 54m · ₪135–175
- Amman → Meithalun77 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · JD6–8
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Meithalun
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 Meithalun. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe most logical way to enter would be to fly into Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, take a taxi or mini-bus to Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, from there at one of Arab bus stations take bus 18 to Ramallah (₪6.50, less than an hour), cross into Ramallah and take a shared taxi from the central bus station to Jenin (₪35, 1.5-2 h).
- Get inYou then cross on foot and take a (shared) taxi or hitchhike the rest of the distance.
From Wikivoyage: Jenin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Meithalun
Meithalun is 55 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sanur, Jeninvillage council in Jenin Governorate2.6 km
- Judeidavillage council in Jenin Governorate3.1 km
- Siris, Jeninvillage council in Jenin Governorate2.7 km