Al-Bireh Tourist Information Center

10/01/2019

A beautiful Oad ..

25/09/2018

Al Bireh Cultural Center - Palestinian hand made products market

17/07/2018

47soul السبعة و أربعين

Palestine International Festival for Music and Dance (PIF) is a creative cultural and arts project which communicates with the outside world and contributes towards breaking the cultural siege which has been imposed on Palestine and Palestinian people for decades. The Festival at its core has a cultural and artistic quality and provides the Palestinian public with entertainment they crave for. The PIF was founded in 1993 to organize the first international festival and the largest annual arts and culture events in Palestine, contributing to the revival and restructuring of the artistic and cultural scene in Palestine.The festival proved to be a huge success and became an annual national event attracting more than 15,000 audiences annually.

47SOUL - 17/7/2018

47SOUL is an Electro Arabic Dabke (Shamstep) band formed in Amman Jordan in 2013. The members are rooted in Bilad Al-Sham, spanning the divides from Amman to the Galilee to Ramallah and the rest of the Palestinian Diaspora. This new sound of 47SOUL has rapidly amassed fans in the Arab World and Europe by blasting the electric Arabic Dabke sound through underground music scenes. On top of the beats that have been bumping in the Arab World for centuries, 47SOUL hypes it up with analog synthesizers, hypnotic guitar lines, and shattering verses from the four singers. Every show ends in relentless dance and trance from all parties involved. Their lyrics, mixing Arabic and English, call for celebration and freedom in the struggle for equality, inside Bilad Al Sham and throughout the world. The current lineup of 2016 includes: Z the People (vocals & synths) El Far3i (darouka, Mc/Vocals) Walaa Sbeit (percussion, Mc/vocals) El Jehaz (guitar & vocals).

Photographer: Wajdy Hussain

15/07/2018

Japanese singing 😁😁

04/07/2018

Australia's, welcome in Al Bireh city

01/07/2018

Al-Bireh Municipality organized a Palestinian Heritage day at Al-Bireh city aiming to revive and embody the image of heritage and to show the aspects of the Palestinian civilization in terms of time and location, and to recall the Palestinian narration and identity and its historical dimension.

The Palestinian heritage day was permeated with a several activities on the heritage which included Interactive heritage exhibition from all Palestinian cities, and an exhibition displaying the ceramic works, embroideries, inscription on pottery and copper artwork, and many national products. It also included popular Palestinian food such as the Taabun bread and Zeit wa-Za’tar (oil and thyme). The heritage day included also several heritage artistic performances such as the popular wedding and Zajal in which the audience had interacted with.

23/04/2018

French delegation, tourists and researchers

17/04/2018

Skaters from Holand

17/04/2018

Skating on front of the Tourist information center - Al Bireh cultural center

17/04/2018

Canadians

17/04/2018

07/10/2017

The Canadian skater's

20/09/2017

Qalqiliya is considered as the capital of Guava in Palestine. Qalqiliya Guava today in Al Bireh Cultural Center 20/9/2017.

مركز البيرة الثقافي
بلدية البيرة Al-Bireh Municipality
Al-Bireh Tourist Information Center

17/04/2017

Cute professors from Germany!
Welcome in Al Bireh

17/04/2017

A nice group from China visiting Al Bireh Tourist Information Center

30/03/2017

Land Day, Yom al-Ard, March 30, is an annual day of commemoration for Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976. In response to the Israeli government's announcement of a plan to expropriate thousands of dunams of land for security and settlement purposes, a general strike and marches were organized in Arab towns from the Galilee to the Negev. In the ensuing confrontations with the Israeli army and police, six unarmed Arab citizens were killed, about one hundred were wounded, and hundreds of others arrested.

Scholarship on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict recognizes Land Day as a pivotal event in the struggle over land and in the relationship of Arab citizens to the Israeli state and body politic. It is significant in that it was the first time since 1948 that Arabs in Israel organized a response to Israeli policies as a Palestinian national collective. An important annual day of commemoration in the Palestinian national political calendar ever since, it is marked not only by Arab citizens of Israel, but also by Palestinians all over the world.

22/03/2017

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have!

15/03/2017

Al Bireh Tourist Information Center gives you all the information you need about the city.

Visit us Al Bireh Tourist Information Center, Nahda street, close to Jerusalem bus station.

12/03/2017

Al Bireh tourist information center

11/03/2017

02/03/2017

Al-Bireh is identified with ancient Beerot and was occupied during the Roman and Byzantine periods. The early medieval remains of Al-Bireh are identified with the village of Mahamoria. Remains from the Crusader and Ayyubid periods were found in the historic core of the town and include the Khan, a church, and a mosque. According to Christian tradition, Joseph and Mary rested in Al-Bireh on their way from Jerusalem to Galilee when they discovered that Jesus was missing. A crusader church, known as the church of the Holy Family, marks the spot where they stopped.

02/03/2017

The road heading north from Jerusalem to Sabastiya is an ancient one. In the 12th century, in the Crusader period, it was controlled by the Knights of St. John. Later, during the Ottoman period in the 16th century, a khan was created on the road in Al-Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah, as a place for travelers to rest their animals, exchange valuable information on travel conditions, and spend a peaceful night in secure surroundings before continuing their journeys. The Khan gradually fell into ruins until 2014. A project funded by the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), which restored parts of the building and created a museum for displays of artifacts to visitors.

28/02/2017

Tell al-Nasbah

Located at the southern entrance of al-Bireh, Tell al-Nasbah is an important Bronze Age site. Visible ruins include a gate dating back to the ninth century BC, a massive wall, the remains of a Byzantine church, and an Ottoman Khan. Tell al-Nasbah is believed to be the site where Saul was crowned king.

28/02/2017

Honor guards at attention over Yasser Arafat’s tombstone in mausoleum, opened 10 November 2007 at the PNA Presidential headquarters in Ramallah.

The West Bank headquarters of the Palestinian Authority. The Mukata’a is a two-block compound with a white tower that is lit up at night and visible from most parts of the city. It contains some government offices and conference rooms, as well as Yasser Arafat’s mausoleum next to the building where he was held under siege in 2002."

27/02/2017

Al-Bireh in Brief ..

Dating from 4500 BC, Al-Bireh lies in the heart of
Palestine on the main road between Nablus and
Jerusalem and links the north and south of Palestine.
Only 16 km from the holy city of Jerusalem, the city
enjoys a strategic location in the heart of Palestine and
is a base from which all Palestinian cities, from north to south, can easily be reached.

The name Al-Bireh is believed to derive from the
original Canaanite (Bi’rot) and means ‘wells’, a referenceto the many water springs throughout the city. The springs include Ain Al-Bireh, the most famous one, in addition to Ain Al-Kassa’a, Ain Om Al- Sharayet, Ain Al-Jinan and Ain Al-Malek.

The city hosts many important political and civil
institutions, national ministries and embassies, such
as the Presidential headquarters and the tomb of
martyred leader Yasser Arafat. Al-Bireh and Ramallah
have become vibrant centers of commercial activity
and Al-Bireh is currently experiencing economic
growth as it is the location chosen by many major
companies to base their offices.

Al-Bireh covers an area of 22.045 dunums and the city’s population was around 60,000 people in 2012.

26/02/2017

25/02/2017

Al Bireh residents are from several families, including Hamayel, Qar‟an, „Abed, Karakra, At Taweel and Ar Rafidi families.

(Al Bireh Municipality, 2017).

21/02/2017

Al Bireh carries a Canaanite name meaning "the wells", and is called thus as a result of the many water springs which are located on Al Bireh lands. The city was established in 1928 and its residents today are descendants of city's native citizens.

20/02/2017

Al Bireh is a Palestinian city within Ramallah Governorate, located 1.55 km east of Ramallah City. Al Bireh is bordered by Beitin, Burqa and „Ein Yabrud lands to the east, Surda village, Dura al Qar‟ and „Ein Yabrud lands to the north, Ramallah city and Qaddura Camp to the west, and Kafr „Aqab and Rafat villages (in Jerusalem Governorate) to the south.

Al Bireh is located at an altitude of 846 m above sea level with a mean annual rainfall of 600.7 mm. The average annual temperature is 16 Co whilst the average annual humidity is approximately 61%.

Since the year 1937, Al Bireh has been governed by a Municipal council which is currently administrated by 5 members appointed by the Palestinian National Authority. There are 240 employees working in the council, which owns a permanent headquarters and 5 vehicles for the collection of solid waste, in addition to 15 trucks, 5 pickup cars, 2 bulldozers, 2 tractors, a small hammer and a metal detecting device (Al Bireh Municipality).

It is the responsibility of the municipal council to provide a number of services to the residents of Al Bireh, including (Al Bireh Municipality, 2012):
- Solid waste collection, road construction and restoration, street cleaning and social development services.
- The organization of construction and licensing processes.
- Implementation of projects and studies for the city.
- Provision of offices for governmental services, such as post and security.
- Protection of historical and archaeological city sites.
- Provision and management of a sewerage network.
- Provision of public markets.
- Provision and management of kindergartens.
- Provision of slaughterhouses and the organization of animal slaughtering.