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Misilyah

Misilyah, sometimes spelled Mithiliyeh and Misiliyeh, is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank of the State of Palestine, located 14 kilometers south of the city of Jenin.

Misilyah
Misilyah · Qasrawi 2000
The place

Misilyah, sometimes spelled Mithiliyeh and Misiliyeh, is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank of the State of Palestine, located 14 kilometers south of the city of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,252 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,884 by 2017. The main agricultural crops cultivated in Misilya are olives, grapes, figs, and vegetables. Roman and Islamic ruins have been found in the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Misilyah

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.

  1. 01
    Khirbet 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.

    4 km · archaeological site in the West Bank · Wikipedia

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 Misilyah

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 56 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 81 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 99 km
  • Tel Aviv → Misilyah
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · ₪27–36
  • Eilat → Misilyah
    316 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · ₪330–680
  • Amman → Misilyah
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · JD5–7
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Misilyah

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    230 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    313 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    439 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    670 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,036 km

If you know how people move in Misilyah – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Misilyah

Misilyah is 56 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Zababdehtown in the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank3.3 km
  • Sir, Jeninvillage council in Jenin Governorate3.6 km
  • Jarbamunicipality type D in Jenin, State of Palestine3 km