Al-Ram
Al-Ram, also transcribed as Al-Ramm, El-Ram, Er-Ram, and A-Ram, is a Palestinian town which lies northeast of Jerusalem, just outside the city's municipal border.
Al-Ram, also transcribed as Al-Ramm, El-Ram, Er-Ram, and A-Ram, is a Palestinian town which lies northeast of Jerusalem, just outside the city's municipal border. The village is part of the built-up urban area of Jerusalem, the Atarot industrial zone and Beit Hanina lie to the west, and Neve Yaakov borders it on the south, with a built-up area of 3,289 dunums. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, a-Ram had a population of 15,814 in 2017. The head of A-Ram's village council estimates that 58,000 people live there, more than half of them holding Israeli identity cards.
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Getting to Al-Ram
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 37 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 73 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 73 km
- Eilat → Al-Ram257 km · quickest by road, 5h 52m · ₪105–140
- Amman → Al-Ram68 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · JD4–5
- El Arish → Al-Ram159 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · E£365–490
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No local-transport research exists yet for Al-Ram
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 Al-Ram. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundYou are almost always advised to use Shared Taxis which will be quicker although marginally more expensive.
- Get aroundBuses, like shared taxis will also tend to wait until full before departing.
- Get aroundMost shared taxis have fixed bus-stations, often car-parks near the centre of towns or cities.
- Get aroundLarger minivans carry 7 passengers and inner-city shared taxis carry 4.
- Get aroundShared taxis are often distinguished with black stripes on front and back at the sides, particularly the normal-sized cars serving inner-city routes.
From Wikivoyage: Palestinian territories, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Al-Ram
Al-Ram is 8 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.