Salfīt
Salfit is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Salfit Governorate.
Salfit is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Salfit Governorate. It is located adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Ariel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Salfit had a population of 10,911 in 2017. Since the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip of the 1995 Oslo II Accord, Salfit, located in Area A, has been administered by the Palestinian National Authority, while continuing under Israeli military occupation.
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Worth seeing in and around Salfīt
3 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.
- 01Ariel University
Ariel University, previously a public college known as the Ariel University Center of Samaria, is an Israeli university located in the urban Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. The college was founded in 1982 as a regional branch of Bar-Ilan University and was originally located in the settlement of Kedumim, After moving to a larger campus in Ariel, it became the largest Israeli public college.
3.4 km · Israeli University in Ariel, Israel · Wikipedia - 02Mount Sabih
Mount Sabih is a mountain located between 3 Palestinian villages, Qabalan, Yatma and Beita, south of Nablus. Mount Sabih has several peaks, the highest most southern of which was occupied in May 2021 by settlers who established an illegal Israeli outpost named Evyatar.
9.7 km · Mountain in Nablus · Wikipedia - 03Khirbet Kurkush
Khirbet Kurkush is an archeological site in the West Bank. It lies between the Israeli settlements of Bruchin and Ariel and near the Palestinian town of Bruqin, in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine.
6.4 km · Archaeological site in the West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia
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Getting to Salfīt
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 29 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 77 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 86 km
- Amman → Salfīt73 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · JD4.5–6
- El Arish → Salfīt169 km · quickest by road, 5h 5m · E£400–530
- Damascus → Salfīt190 km · quickest by road, 5h 3m · $23–32
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No local-transport research exists yet for Salfīt
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 Salfīt. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHitchhiking (Tremp) Ariel is long and narrow (it follows the crest of a long mountain ridge), so it could be a long walk from one part to another.
- Go nextHitch a ride, or take Palestinian licence-plated taxi, from Ariel Junction to Nablus.
From Wikivoyage: Ariel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.
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Next door to Salfīt
Salfīt is 34 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- ArielIsraeli settlement in the occupied West Bank2.7 km
- Rawabicity in the Palestinian National Authority8 km
- Nabi Salihvillage in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, Cisjordan9.1 km
- Kfar TapuachIsraeli Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank7.5 km
- ImmanuelIsraeli settlement in the West Bank9.8 km
- HalamishIsraeli settlement in the West Bank, Palestine9.7 km