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Mizpah in Benjamin

Mitzpah was a city of the tribe of Benjamin; it is referred to multiple times in the Hebrew Bible.

Mizpah in Benjamin
Mizpah in Benjamin · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mitzpah was a city of the tribe of Benjamin; it is referred to multiple times in the Hebrew Bible.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mizpah in Benjamin

10 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.

  1. 01
    Birzeit University

    Birzeit University is a public university in the West Bank, Palestine, registered by the Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs as a charitable organization. It is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education and located in the outskirts of Birzeit, near Ramallah.

    8.8 km · public university in the West Bank, State of Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    National Headquarters of the Israel Police

    The National Headquarters of the Israel Police is the headquarters of the Israel Police, located in Kiryat Menachem Begin in East Jerusalem.

    9.9 km · building in Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Har Hotzvim

    Har Hotzvim, also Campus of Science-Rich Industries is a high-tech industrial park located in northwest Jerusalem.

    9.2 km · Industrial park and mountain in Jerusalem. · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Al-Quds Open University

    Al-Quds Open University is an independent, distance education public university in Palestine. It was created by a decree issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1991.

    3.5 km · open university with campuses across the Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium

    Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium is an association football stadium on Dahiat al'Barid Street of Al-Ram in Jerusalem Governorate, Palestine. It is one of the home stadiums of the Palestine national football team.

    4.4 km · football stadium in Al-Ram · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Belz Beis HaMedrash HaGadol

    The Belz Great Synagogue is a Hasidic Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 7 Binat Yisas'har Street, in the Kiryat Belz neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. Designed by Aaron Ostreicher and completed in 2002, the synagogue was built by the Belz Hasidic community with financial help from its supporters around the world.

    9.8 km · Large Hasidic synagogue in Jerusalem · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Jerusalem War Cemetery

    The Jerusalem War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Jerusalem for fallen servicemen of the Commonwealth in the World War I in the Palestine campaign. The main cemetery is located on Mount Scopus next to the Hadassah hospital and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem campus, 4.5 km north of the Old City of Jerusalem.

    9.9 km · cemetery in Jerusalem · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque

    Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque is the largest mosque in al-Bireh, West Bank, Palestine. Located in the Downtown district of the city, the mosque is named after the late Egyptian president and Arab leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.

    2.2 km · mosque in the city of Al-Bireh, Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The Palestinian Museum

    The Palestinian Museum is a museum in Birzeit, in the West Bank, Palestine, that was inaugurated on 18 May 2016. It is a flagship project of the Welfare Association, a non-profit organization for developing humanitarian projects in Palestine.

    9.2 km · museum in Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Tomb of Samuel

    The Tomb of Samuel (Arabic: النبي صموئيل, translit. an-Nabi Samu'il or Nebi Samwil, Hebrew: קבר שמואל הנביא, translit.

    6.8 km · ancient site in Judea, Palestine · 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 Mizpah in Benjamin

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 34 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 74 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 76 km
Stations
Jerusalem International Airport, 2.3 km
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mizpah in Benjamin

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundYou are almost always advised to use Shared Taxis which will be quicker although marginally more expensive.
  • Get aroundBuses, like shared taxis will also tend to wait until full before departing.
  • Get aroundMost shared taxis have fixed bus-stations, often car-parks near the centre of towns or cities.
  • Get aroundLarger minivans carry 7 passengers and inner-city shared taxis carry 4.
  • Get aroundShared taxis are often distinguished with black stripes on front and back at the sides, particularly the normal-sized cars serving inner-city routes.

From Wikivoyage: Palestinian territories, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    175 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    258 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    383 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    703 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,062 km

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Around it

Next door to Mizpah in Benjamin

Mizpah in Benjamin is 11 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ramallahcity in the State of Palestine1.9 km
  • Al-BirehCity in the West Bank, State of Palestine2.2 km
  • AiCanaanite royal city5.5 km
  • Giv'at Ze'evIsraeli town in the West Bank5 km
  • Gibeonancient city north of Jerusalem mentioned in the Bible5.1 km
  • Al-Rammunicipality in Jerusalem Governorate3.9 km