Safsaf
Safsaf was a Palestinian village 9 kilometres northwest of Safed, present-day Israel.
Safsaf was a Palestinian village 9 kilometres northwest of Safed, present-day Israel. Its villagers fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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Worth seeing in and around Safsaf
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.
- 01Meron
Mount Meron, also known as Mount Jarmaq or Jebel Jarmaq, is a mountain in the Upper Galilee region of Israel. It has special significance in Jewish religious tradition and parts of it have been declared a nature reserve.
3.5 km · mountain in the Upper Galilee in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Khirbat Shema
Khirbet Shema is an archaeological site located in Israel at the foot of Mount Meron. It features the ruins of a large Jewish village of the Roman and Byzantine periods, including the remains of an ancient synagogue and a mausoleum.
3.9 km · archaeological site located in Israel at the foot of Mount Meron · Wikipedia
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Getting to Safsaf
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 90 km · Damascus (DAM), 109 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 123 km
- Beirut → Safsaf3192 km · quickest by road, 69h 28m · $375–510
- Amman → Safsaf3290 km · quickest by air, 12h 29m · JD400–590
- Damascus → Safsaf3273 km · quickest by air, 13h 29m · $780–1,160
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No local-transport research exists yet for Safsaf
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 Safsaf. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Safed, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Safsaf
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- Meironancient city in Galilee3.4 km
- Kerem Ben Zimrahuman settlement in Israel3.7 km
- Or HaGanuzhuman settlement in Israel700 m
- Bar Yohaiplace in Northern District, Israel1.6 km
- Kfar Hoshenhuman settlement in Israel400 m