Yāsūf
Yasuf is a Palestinian village in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, northeast of Salfit, 37 kilometres (23 mi) southwest of Nablus and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Kfar Tapuach.
Yasuf is a Palestinian village in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, northeast of Salfit, 37 kilometres (23 mi) southwest of Nablus and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Kfar Tapuach. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 2,093 in 2017. About 87% of the population relies on agriculture for income, while the remainder work in the public sector.
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Worth seeing in and around Yāsūf
2 places 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.
- 01Ariel University
Ariel University, previously a public college known as the Ariel University Center of Samaria, is an Israeli university located in the urban Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. The college was founded in 1982 as a regional branch of Bar-Ilan University and was originally located in the settlement of Kedumim, After moving to a larger campus in Ariel, it became the largest Israeli public college.
3 km · Israeli University in Ariel, Israel · Wikipedia - 02Mount Sabih
Mount Sabih is a mountain located between 3 Palestinian villages, Qabalan, Yatma and Beita, south of Nablus. Mount Sabih has several peaks, the highest most southern of which was occupied in May 2021 by settlers who established an illegal Israeli outpost named Evyatar.
3.6 km · Mountain in Nablus · Wikipedia
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Getting to Yāsūf
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 35 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 73 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 83 km
- Amman → Yāsūf69 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · JD4.5–6
- El Arish → Yāsūf175 km · quickest by road, 5h 15m · E£410–550
- Damascus → Yāsūf184 km · quickest by road, 5h 1m · $23–32
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No local-transport research exists yet for Yāsūf
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 Yāsūf. 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 Yāsūf
Yāsūf is 36 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kfar TapuachIsraeli Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank1.5 km
- Iskakavillage council in Salfit Governorate1.4 km
- Yatmavillage council in Nablus2.8 km
- RehelimIsraeli settlement in the occupied West Bank1.8 km
- As-Sawiyavillage council in Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine3.2 km
- AsifIsraeli settlement in the West Bank1.2 km