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Yad Vashem
Israel's official memorial to the Holocaust, with deeply moving exhibits and a striking modernist museum built into a mountainside.
34 km · about 40 min drive
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Salfīt
West Bank, Palestine · Asia
About Salfīt
Salfīt sits on the route: 5 minutes from Mardā, 34km from Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Salfīt is in West Bank, Palestine, with about 11,000 people. The nearest town is Mardā, about 4 km away.
Salfit (Arabic: سلفيت, romanized: Salfīt) is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Salfit Governorate. It is located adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Ariel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Salfit had a population of 10,911 in 2017. Since the InterimRead more
Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip of the 1995 Oslo II Accord, Salfit, located in Area A, has been administered by the Palestinian National Authority, while continuing under Israeli military occupation.
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What is there to see near Salfīt?
Within an hour or so of Salfīt: Yad Vashem (34 km), Church of the Holy Sepulchre (34 km), Dome of the Rock (34 km), Jerusalem Old City (35 km).
Are there any good drives near Salfīt?
The nearest famous roads are King's Highway and Scorpions Ascent (Ma'ale Akrabim).
Where is Salfīt?
Salfīt is in West Bank, Palestine, about 4 km from Mardā.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 11,000
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Palestine
- Region
- West Bank
- Timezone
- Asia/Hebron
- Coordinates
- 32.0837, 35.1808
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Worth the detour from Salfīt
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Christianity's holiest site, built on the traditional locations of Jesus's crucifixion and burial.
34 km · about 40 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.
34 km · about 40 min 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.
35 km · about 40 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.
35 km · about 40 min drive
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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.
40 km · about 45 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.
41 km · about 45 min drive
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Church of the Nativity
One of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world, built over the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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