--- title: "Sir, Jenin – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Sir, Jenin, Israel: Sir is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the West Bank, located 18 kilometers south of Jenin. Nearby…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sir-jenin" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sir-jenin.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/2024-11-12_01_CCGS_SIR_WILFRED_GRENFELL_-_IMO_8415495_%E2%80%93_Victoria_BC_CAN.jpg/1920px-2024-11-12_01_CCGS_SIR_WILFRED_GRENFELL_-_IMO_8415495_%E2%80%93_Victoria_BC_CAN.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Jenin Governorate, West Bank · Israel # Sir, Jenin Sir is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the West Bank, located 18 kilometers south of Jenin. ![Sir, Jenin](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/2024-11-12_01_CCGS_SIR_WILFRED_GRENFELL_-_IMO_8415495_%E2%80%93_Victoria_BC_CAN.jpg/1920px-2024-11-12_01_CCGS_SIR_WILFRED_GRENFELL_-_IMO_8415495_%E2%80%93_Victoria_BC_CAN.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Sir, Jenin · Gordon Leggett The place Sir is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the West Bank, located 18 kilometers south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 769 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 857 by 2017. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%2C_Jenin), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Sir, Jenin 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. 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. 3.8 km · archaeological site in the West Bank · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirbet_Kheibar) 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 Sir, Jenin **Airports:** Ben Gurion (TLV), 56 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 77 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 96 km\ - Tel Aviv → Sir, Jenin 29 km · quickest by road, 40 min · ₪13–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tel-aviv-to-sir-jenin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=Sir%2C+Jenin) - Eilat → Sir, Jenin 294 km · quickest by air, 3h 36m · ₪330–550 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eilat-to-sir-jenin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eilat&to=Sir%2C+Jenin) - Amman → Sir, Jenin 75 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · JD6–7 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-sir-jenin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=Sir%2C+Jenin) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Sir%2C%20Jenin) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Sir, Jenin 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 Sir, Jenin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in The 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 in You then cross on foot and take a (shared) taxi or hitchhike the rest of the distance. From [Wikivoyage: Jenin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 227 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 310 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 437 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 674 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,040 km If you know how people move in Sir, Jenin – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csir-jenin&title=Sir%2C+Jenin&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsir-jenin), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Sir, Jenin Sir, Jenin is 55 km from [Irbid](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/irbid), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Zababdeh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zababdeh) town in the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank 2.6 km - [Misilyah](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/misilyah) village council in Jenin Governorate 3.6 km - ['Aqqaba](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aqqaba) Palestinian town 3.6 km - [Judeida](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/judeida) village council in Jenin Governorate 3.4 km - [Kufeir](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kufeir) municipality type D in Jenin, State of Palestine 2.7 km [The place page for Sir, Jenin](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/sir-jenin) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Israel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IL) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sir-jenin, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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