Al Yāmūn
Al-Yamun is a Palestinian town located nine kilometers west of Jenin in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the northern West Bank.
Al-Yamun is a Palestinian town located nine kilometers west of Jenin in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the northern West Bank. Al-Yamun's land area consists of approximately 20,000 dunams, of which 1,300 dunams is built-up area.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Al Yāmūn
3 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.
- 01Burqin Church
The Burqin Church, also known as the Church of the Ten Lepers or Church of St George, is a Greek Orthodox church established during the Byzantine period and located in Burqin, Jenin Governorate, West Bank, Palestine. It is considered to be the fifth holiest Christian holy place and the third-oldest church in the world.
4 km · church building in West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia - 02The Freedom Theatre
The Freedom Theatre is a community-based theatre and cultural center in the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, Palestine. Established in 2006, the theatre aims to generate cultural resistance through the fields of popular culture and art as a catalyst for social change in the occupied Palestinian territories.
5.5 km · Palestinian community-based theatre and cultural center in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank · Wikipedia - 03Shahak Industrial Park
The Shahak Industrial Park is located in the northern region of the jurisdiction of the Shomron Regional Council in the West Bank, Palestine, between Afula and Hadera near the 'Barkai/Iron Interchange' of Highway 6. The industrial park is adjacent to Israeli settlements Shaked, Hinanit in the West Bank, and Katzir across the Green Line in Israel, hence the initials making up the acronym in Hebrew that is the name of the park.
5.3 km · Industrial park in Israel · Wikipedia
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.
Getting to Al Yāmūn
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 62 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 91 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 111 km
- Stations
- Muqeible Airfield, 5.4 km
- Tel Aviv → Al Yāmūn62 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · ₪29–38
- Amman → Al Yāmūn89 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · JD5–7
- Beirut → Al Yāmūn159 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · $27–38
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Al Yāmūn
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 Yāmūn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe most logical way to enter would be to fly into Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, take a taxi or mini-bus to Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, from there at one of Arab bus stations take bus 18 to Ramallah (₪6.50, less than an hour), cross into Ramallah and take a shared taxi from the central bus station to Jenin (₪35, 1.5-2 h).
- Get inYou then cross on foot and take a (shared) taxi or hitchhike the rest of the distance.
From Wikivoyage: Jenin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
- 01241 km
- 02324 km
- 03449 km
- 04659 km
- 051,026 km
If you know how people move in Al Yāmūn – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Al Yāmūn
Al Yāmūn is 58 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.