Timnath-heres
Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah, later Thamna, was the town given by the Israelites to Joshua according to the Hebrew Bible.
Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah, later Thamna, was the town given by the Israelites to Joshua according to the Hebrew Bible. He requested it and the people gave it to him "at the order of the Lord". He built up the town and lived in it.
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Worth seeing in and around Timnath-heres
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 Tibnah
Khirbet Tibnah is a tell located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the West Bank, between the villages Deir Nidham and Nabi Salih. It was inhabited from the Early Bronze Age to the Ottoman period.
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Getting to Timnath-heres
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 21 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 83 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 89 km
- Eilat → Timnath-heresTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Amman → Timnath-heresTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- El Arish → Timnath-heresTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Timnath-heres
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 Timnath-heres. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHitchhiking (Tremp) Ariel is long and narrow (it follows the crest of a long mountain ridge), so it could be a long walk from one part to another.
- Go nextHitch a ride, or take Palestinian licence-plated taxi, from Ariel Junction to Nablus.
From Wikivoyage: Ariel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.
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Next door to Timnath-heres
Timnath-heres is 27 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Nabi Salihvillage in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, Cisjordan1.6 km
- HalamishIsraeli settlement in the West Bank, Palestine1.5 km
- Deir Nidhamvillage council in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate700 m
- West Bani Zeidmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate3.8 km
- Beitillumunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate3.6 km
- Beit Rima massacre2001 Israeli assault on West Bank village3.8 km