Tell es-Safi
Tell es-Safi was an Arab Palestinian village, located in the Shephelah region on the southern banks of Wadi 'Ajjur, 35 kilometers (22 mi) northwest of Hebron, which had its Arab population expelled during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war.
Tell es-Safi was an Arab Palestinian village, located in the Shephelah region on the southern banks of Wadi 'Ajjur, 35 kilometers (22 mi) northwest of Hebron, which had its Arab population expelled during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. Archaeological excavations show that the site was continuously inhabited since the 5th millennium BCE, and it is widely identified with the Philistine city of Gath.
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Worth seeing in and around Tell es-Safi
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.
- 01Gath
Gath or Gat was one of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis during the Iron Age. It was located in northeastern Philistia, close to the border with Judah.
500 m · ancient city and archaeological site mentioned in the Bible and in Akkadian sources · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tell es-Safi
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 34 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 108 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 112 km
- Eilat → Tell es-Safi369 km · quickest by air, 7h 47m · ₪320–500
- Amman → Tell es-Safi94 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · JD6–7
- El Arish → Tell es-Safi315 km · quickest by road, 8h 34m · E£690–920
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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 Tell es-Safi
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 Tell es-Safi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Tell es-Safi – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Tell es-Safi
Tell es-Safi is 36 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bil'in, GazaPalestinian village in Gaza subdistrict, depopulated in 19483.1 km
- Barqusyavillage in Hebron, Mandatory Palestine3.5 km
- Al-'Azihuman settlement in Israel3.5 km