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Alei Zahav

Alei Zahav is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement located on the western edge of the northern West Bank, adjacent to the Palestinian towns of Deir Ballut and Kafr ad-Dik.

Alei Zahav
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The place

Alei Zahav is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement located on the western edge of the northern West Bank, adjacent to the Palestinian towns of Deir Ballut and Kafr ad-Dik. The settlement, under the administrative municipal government of the Shomron Regional Council, is adjacent to Peduel and Beit Aryeh. In 2024 its population was 5,473.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alei Zahav

2 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. 01
    Deir Sam'an

    Deir Samaan is an archaeological site in the Palestinian town of Kafr ad-Dik, in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It consists of a 1,600-year-old ancient Byzantine ruin located on top of a hill.

    1.3 km · archaeological site in Salfit Governorate, Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Khirbat Khudash

    Khirbat Khudash is an archaeological site in the West Bank, located within the Israeli settlement of Beit Aryeh-Ofarim, next to the Palestinian village of Al-Lubban al-Gharbi. It comprises small, planned and fortified site dating to the Iron Age IIB, notable for its numerous oil presses.

    3.6 km · archaeological site in the West Bank · 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.

Go there

Getting to Alei Zahav

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 18 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 88 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 96 km
  • Amman → Alei Zahav
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · JD5–6
  • El Arish → Alei Zahav
    160 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · E£370–495
  • Beirut → Alei Zahav
    207 km · quickest by road, 6h 32m · $34–46
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alei Zahav

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 Alei Zahav. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundHitchhiking (Tremp) Ariel is long and narrow (it follows the crest of a long mountain ridge), so it could be a long walk from one part to another.
  • Go nextHitch a ride, or take Palestinian licence-plated taxi, from Ariel Junction to Nablus.

From Wikivoyage: Ariel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    198 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    280 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    401 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    678 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,038 km

If you know how people move in Alei Zahav – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Alei Zahav

Alei Zahav is 27 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kafr ad-Dikmunicipality in Salfit Governorate1.9 km
  • PeduelIsraeli settlement in the West Bank1.5 km
  • BrukhinIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2.3 km
  • Deir Balluttown in Salfit Governorate3.8 km
  • Bruqintown in Salfit Governorate3.3 km
  • Rafat, Salfitvillage council in Salfit Governorate1.9 km