--- title: "Ashkelon – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Ashkelon, Israel: city 21 km from Gaza. Nearby: Sala Stadium, Ashkelon dog cemetery, Ashkelon Marina Breakwater Light. Every way there from the planner…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-majdal" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-majdal.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- City · Israel · Southern District # Ashkelon What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Ashkelon 6 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. 1. Sala Stadium The Sala Stadium is a sports stadium in Ashkelon, Israel. The stadium has a capacity of 5,250 people and is the home ground of Maccabi Ashkelon. 400 m · football stadium in Ashkelon · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sala_Stadium) 2. Ashkelon dog cemetery The Ashkelon dog cemetery is an ancient burial site in today's Ashkelon National Park, Israel, where possibly thousands of dogs were interred between the 5th century BC and the 3rd century BC. The majority of these dogs were puppies; all had similarities to the modern Canaan dog, perhaps representing the ancestral population from which the modern breed is descended. It is the largest known animal cemetery of this kind in the ancient world. 2.6 km · Burial ground for dogs in Ashkelon · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkelon_dog_cemetery) 3. Ashkelon Marina Breakwater Light Ashkelon Marina Breakwater Light is a lighthouse in Ashkelon, Israel. It is located at the end of the main breakwater of the Ashkelon Marina. 2.3 km · lighthouse in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkelon_Marina_Breakwater_Light) 4. Ashkelon Academic College Ashkelon Academic College is a public college in Ashkelon, Israel. The college has two faculties, the School of Economics and Social Work, for management, logistics, banking, and accounting, in which undergraduate and graduate studies take place, as well as the School of Health Sciences, for undergraduate studies in nutrition, nursing, and public health. 0 m · college in Ashkelon, Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkelon_Academic_College) 5. Ashkelon Coal Jetty Breakwater Light Ashkelon Coal Jetty Breakwater Light is a lighthouse in Ashkelon, Israel. It is located at the end of the main breakwater of the Ashkelon Port Coal Jetty, in the Ashkelon Oil Port operated by the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company, near the Trans-Israel pipeline. 5.8 km · lighthouse in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkelon_Coal_Jetty_Breakwater_Light) 6. Ashkelon Sports Arena A.S. Ironi Ashkelon is a professional basketball team based in Ashkelon, south west Israel. 800 m · sports stadium in Ashkelon · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkelon_Sports_Arena) 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. Go there ## Getting to Ashkelon **Airports:** Ben Gurion (TLV), 48 km · El Arish (AAC), 98 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 135 km\ **Stations:** Ashkelon Railway Station, 3.2 km\ - Tel Aviv → Ashkelon 50 km · quickest by road, 54 min · ₪19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tel-aviv-to-ashkelon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=Ashkelon) - Eilat → Ashkelon 238 km · quickest by air, 3h 59m · ₪390–590 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eilat-to-ashkelon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eilat&to=Ashkelon) - El Arish → Ashkelon 95 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · E£300–400 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/el-arish-to-ashkelon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=El+Arish&to=Ashkelon) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ashkelon) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Ashkelon 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 Ashkelon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are no ferries or cruises to Ashkelon, but you can bring your own boat into the marina. From [Wikivoyage: Ashkelon](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ashkelon), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08. The nearest places where the work is done 1. 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Around it ## Next door to Ashkelon Ashkelon is 21 km from [Gaza](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gaza), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Al-Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-jura) Palestinian village 1.7 km - [Ascalon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ascalon) ancient city in Israel 2.5 km - [Barbara, Gaza](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/barbara-gaza) Palestinian village in Gaza subdistrict, depopulated in 1948 5.1 km - [Mavki'im](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mavkiim) human settlement in Israel 5.3 km - [Hamama](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hamama) village in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine 3 km - [Beit Shikma](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beit-shikma) human settlement in Israel 5 km [The place page for Ashkelon](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/al-majdal) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Israel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IL) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-majdal, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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