Siris, Jenin
Siris is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate in the western area of the West Bank, located 32 kilometers south of Jenin.
Siris is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate in the western area of the West Bank, located 32 kilometers south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5400 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 6,020 by 2017. Siris has an area of about 12,495 dunums, including 2,500 dunums of state land, about 7,500 dunums planted with olive trees, about 1,500 dunums of land, and the rest used for construction.
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Worth seeing in and around Siris, Jenin
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.
- 01Mount Hureish
Mount Hureish is a mountain in the northern West Bank, part of the broader Jabal Nablus range. It abuts the Marj Sanur valley to the south and its peak is 764 metres above sea level, making it the tallest mountain in the Jenin area, and the sixth highest peak in the Palestine.
2.9 km · mountain in State of Palestine · Wikipedia - 02Khirbet 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.
2.8 km · archaeological site in the West Bank · Wikipedia
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Getting to Siris, Jenin
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 52 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 77 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 95 km
- Tel Aviv → Siris, Jenin55 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · ₪27–36
- Eilat → Siris, Jenin310 km · quickest by road, 6h 59m · ₪135–180
- Amman → Siris, Jenin74 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · JD6–8
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No local-transport research exists yet for Siris, 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 Siris, Jenin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Ben Gurion it is cheapest to take a "sherut" (shared taxi) to the bus station on Nablus Road by Damascus Gate, and then follow the directions above to Nablus.
- Go nextShared minibus taxis (sherut/servees) leaving Nablus tend to congregate around the center of town and along the two-sided Al-Gazalah (Al-Hadadeen) Street going southeast out of town.
- Go nextTo get there by hitchhiking, take a sherut to Tubas (₪7.50) and from there hitchhike east through Tayasir and Aqabah to the highway #578 or #90, and then north past the Israeli checkpoint.
From Wikivoyage: Nablus, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Next door to Siris, Jenin
Siris, Jenin is 55 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.