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Alon shvut

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alon shvut

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.

  1. 01
    Khirbet Jamjum

    Archeological site located at the western part of Gush Etzion

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Herzog College

    Israeli teachers' college

    400 m · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gush Etzion Well's Aqueduct

    Archaeological site in Israel

    1.8 km · 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.

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Getting to Alon shvut

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 46 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 82 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 89 km
  • Tel Aviv → Alon shvut
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · ₪26–34
  • Amman → Alon shvut
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · JD5–7
  • El Arish → Alon shvut
    139 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · E£310–415
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alon shvut

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHitchhiking (described below) can be difficult if you have a suitcase.
  • Get inIf you prefer to hitchhike, take the 31 or 32 local buses to the trempiada (see below).
  • Get inIf you don't have a car, the fastest, cheapest and easiest travel option is hitchhiking, or in Israeli English, "to catch a tremp".
  • Get inThe main hitchhiking hub is in the southern exit from Jerusalem, a place called "Tzomet HaMinharot", or informally the trempiada.
  • Get inFrom here you can get another tremp to a specific settlement, although many Israelis consider it unsafe to hitchhike here (in the past, it has been the site of kidnappings and shootings by Palestinians).

From Wikivoyage: Gush Etzion, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    151 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    233 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    356 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    715 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,070 km

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

Around it

Next door to Alon shvut

Alon shvut is 15 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • EfratIsraeli settlement in the Gush Etzion area2.6 km
  • Bat AyinIsraeli settlement in Gush Etzion2.3 km
  • Nahalinmunicipality in Bethlehem Governorate3.5 km
  • Neve DanielIsraeli settlement in Gush Etzion3 km
  • ElazarIsraeli settlement in Gush Etzion1.6 km
  • Gva'otIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3.5 km