Surif
Surif is a Palestinian City in the Hebron Governorate located 25 km northwest of the city of Hebron.
Surif is a Palestinian City in the Hebron Governorate located 25 km northwest of the city of Hebron. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics census, Surif had a population of 17,287 in 2017. The population is entirely Muslim.
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Worth seeing in and around Surif
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.
- 01Khirbet Jamjum
Khirbet Jamjum is an archaeological site located in the western Hebron Hills of the modern-day West Bank. The settlement occupies the summit and southern saddle of a prominent limestone ridge.
3.2 km · archeological site located at the western part of Gush Etzion · Wikipedia
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Getting to Surif
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 44 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 88 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 95 km
- Tel Aviv → Surif55 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · ₪32–43
- Eilat → Surif233 km · quickest by road, 5h 26m · ₪95–125
- Amman → Surif90 km · quickest by road, 3h · JD5–7
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No local-transport research exists yet for Surif
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 Surif. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHitchhiking (described below) can be difficult if you have a suitcase.
- Get inIf you prefer to hitchhike, take the 31 or 32 local buses to the trempiada (see below).
- Get inIf you don't have a car, the fastest, cheapest and easiest travel option is hitchhiking, or in Israeli English, "to catch a tremp".
- Get inThe main hitchhiking hub is in the southern exit from Jerusalem, a place called "Tzomet HaMinharot", or informally the trempiada.
- Get inFrom here you can get another tremp to a specific settlement, although many Israelis consider it unsafe to hitchhike here (in the past, it has been the site of kidnappings and shootings by Palestinians).
From Wikivoyage: Gush Etzion, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Next door to Surif
Surif is 19 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bat AyinIsraeli settlement in Gush Etzion3.5 km
- Khirbet ad Deirvillage council in Hebron Governorate3.9 km
- Khirbet Safavillage council in Hebron Governorate3.4 km
- Jala, Hebronvillage in State of Palestine3.5 km