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Municipality type D in Jenin, State of Palestine · Palestinian Territory · West Bank

Umm at Tūt

Umm al-Tut is a Palestinian village 6 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank.

The place

Umm al-Tut is a Palestinian village 6 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1003 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 1,194 by 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Umm at Tūt

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.

  1. 01
    Arab American University

    The Arab American University or AAUP is the first private university in Palestine founded in 2000. AAUP's main campus is located near Talfit in the south of the Jenin Governorate.

    2.8 km · private university in Palestine · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Umm at Tūt

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 64 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 79 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 100 km
  • Amman → Umm at Tūt
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · JD5–7
  • Tel Aviv → Umm at Tūt
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · ₪34–45
  • Damascus → Umm at Tūt
    149 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · $19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Umm at Tūt

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 Umm at Tūt. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe most logical way to enter would be to fly into Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, take a taxi or mini-bus to Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, from there at one of Arab bus stations take bus 18 to Ramallah (₪6.50, less than an hour), cross into Ramallah and take a shared taxi from the central bus station to Jenin (₪35, 1.5-2 h).
  • Get inYou then cross on foot and take a (shared) taxi or hitchhike the rest of the distance.

From Wikivoyage: Jenin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    235 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    318 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    445 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    671 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,038 km

If you know how people move in Umm at Tūt – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Umm at Tūt

Umm at Tūt is 49 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.