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Araqah

Araqah is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the Northern area of the West Bank, located 15 kilometers West of Jenin.

Araqah
Araqah · Tamir Bejerano
The place

Araqah is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the Northern area of the West Bank, located 15 kilometers West of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,667 inhabitants in 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Araqah

One place 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
    Shahak 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.

    1.9 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.

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Getting to Araqah

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 59 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 93 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 112 km
  • Tel Aviv → Araqah
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · ₪28–37
  • Eilat → Araqah
    325 km · quickest by road, 6h 46m · ₪135–180
  • Amman → Araqah
    90 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · JD5–7
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Araqah

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    240 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    323 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    447 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    658 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,024 km

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

Around it

Next door to Araqah

Araqah is 59 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ya'badmunicipality in Jenin Governorate3.9 km
  • Al-Yamunmunicipality in Jenin Governorate3.7 km
  • HinanitIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2.9 km
  • ShakedIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3 km
  • Kufeiritvillage council in Jenin Governorate3 km
  • Kafr Qudvillage council in Jenin Governorate2.9 km