Shefer
Shefer is a moshav in northern Israel.
Shefer is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Safed, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 507.
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Worth seeing in and around Shefer
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.
- 01Khirbat 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.
3.7 km · archaeological site located in Israel at the foot of Mount Meron · Wikipedia - 02Rujum en-Nabi Shu'ayb
Rujum en-Nabi Shu'ayb or Jethro's Cairn is an ancient megalithic monument, consisting of a crescent shaped heap of field stones, located some 15 kilometers from the Sea of Galilee on a fairly inaccessible hillside below Parod in Northern Israel. It has been measured as 14,000 cubic meters in volume and about 150 meters long, making it visible from satellite photos.
1 km · archaeological site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shefer
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 98 km · Damascus (DAM), 113 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 116 km
- Beirut → Shefer106 km · quickest by road, 5h 2m · $21–28
- Amman → Shefer120 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · JD6–8
- Damascus → Shefer101 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · $13–18
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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 Shefer
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 Shefer. 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 Shefer
Shefer is 58 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Amirimhuman settlement in Israel1.6 km
- Kafr 'InanPalestinian village depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War2.9 km
- Ein al-Asadhuman settlement in Israel3.7 km
- Farradiyyavillage in Safad, Mandatory Palestine1.6 km
- Parodhuman settlement in Israel1.3 km
- Kfar Shamaihuman settlement2.4 km