Tell, Nablus
Tell, pronounced Till, is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Nablus.

Tell, pronounced Till, is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 5,162 inhabitants in 2017. Most of the town's laborers work in agriculture, with figs and olives being the major source of income.
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Worth seeing in and around Tell, Nablus
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.
- 01An-Najah National University
An-Najah National University is a non-governmental public university governed by a board of trustees in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. The university has 22,000 students and 300 professors in 19 faculties.
3.7 km · University in State of Palestine · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tell, Nablus
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 37 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 78 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 91 km
- Eilat → Tell, Nablus295 km · quickest by road, 6h 26m · ₪125–165
- Amman → Tell, Nablus74 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · JD5–7
- Damascus → Tell, Nablus177 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · $22–30
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No local-transport research exists yet for Tell, Nablus
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, Nablus. 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.
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Next door to Tell, Nablus
Tell, Nablus is 43 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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