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Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Christianity's holiest site, built on the traditional locations of Jesus's crucifixion and burial.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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Huwara
West Bank, Palestine · Asia
About Huwara
Huwara sits on the route: 5 minutes from Būrīn, 48km from Ajloun Castle.
Huwara is in West Bank, Palestine, with about 5,600 people. The nearest town is Būrīn, about 4 km away.
Huwara or Howwarah (Arabic: حُوّارة, romanized: Ḥuwwārah, pronounced [ħʊwˈwaːra] ) is a Palestinian town located in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine. Located in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank, Huwara is on the main road connecting Nablus southwards to Ramallah and Jerusalem, approximately 4Read more
miles (6 km) from Jacob's Well. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 6,659 in 2017.
Huwara is a flashpoint town in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Huwara is on the main road to nearby Israeli settlements, leading to frequent clashes between Israeli soldiers and settlers and local Palestinians. Most notably, two Israeli civilian-settlers passing the town were shot by a Palestinian gunman in a shooting attack. In response to the shooting attack, the town was rampaged by hundreds of Israeli settlers, who torched Palestinian businesses and houses, leaving one dead and one hundred Palestinians injured.
Israel constructed a bypass road around Huwara to avoid having the Israeli settlers pass through the Palestinian town.
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What is there to see near Huwara?
Within an hour or so of Huwara: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (42 km), Jerusalem Old City (42 km), Western Wall (Wailing Wall) (42 km), Dome of the Rock (42 km).
Are there any good drives near Huwara?
The nearest famous roads are King's Highway and Scorpions Ascent (Ma'ale Akrabim).
Where is Huwara?
Huwara is in West Bank, Palestine, about 4 km from Būrīn.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 5,570
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Palestine
- Region
- West Bank
- Timezone
- Asia/Hebron
- Coordinates
- 32.1524, 35.2566
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Jerusalem Old City
A walled sacred city of one square kilometer containing holy sites for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam within four historic quarters.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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Western Wall (Wailing Wall)
The holiest site where Jews can pray, a 2,000-year-old limestone remnant of the Second Temple retaining wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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Dome of the Rock
The iconic gold-domed Islamic shrine on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, built in 691 CE over the sacred Foundation Stone.
42 km · about 50 min drive
museum
Yad Vashem
Israel's official memorial to the Holocaust, with deeply moving exhibits and a striking modernist museum built into a mountainside.
43 km · about 50 min drive
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Ajloun Castle
A 12th-century Ayyubid castle built by Saladin's general on a hilltop to control the Jordan Valley iron mines and counter Crusader expansion.
48 km · about 55 min drive
restaurant
Abu Hassan (Ali Karavan)
A Jaffa hummus counter running since 1971, famous for masabacha made with whole chickpeas and extra tahini. It sells out and closes by mid-afternoon, and the queue starts well before that.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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Old Jaffa
One of the oldest port cities in the world with 4,000 years of history, now an artists' quarter with galleries, restaurants, and views of Tel Aviv's skyline.
49 km · about 55 min drive
Driving roads near Huwara
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- 78 kmMount ArbelA cliff dropping 380m to the Sea of Galilee, with fortified caves cut into its face by Jewish rebels and a lookout taking in the whole lake to the Golan. Israel's only base-jumping mountain.
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