Artuf
Artuf was a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem foothills depopulated in 1948.
Artuf was a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem foothills depopulated in 1948. It was situated 21.5 kilometers (13.4 mi) west of Jerusalem on a high plateau, surrounded by plains on the south, east, and west. The village was on a secondary road that linked it to the main road to Jerusalem.
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Worth seeing in and around Artuf
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.
- 01Avshalom Cave
Avshalom Cave, known in academic literature as Soreq Cave and popularly as Stalactites Cave, is a 5,000 m2 cave on the western side of Mt. Ye'ela, in the Judean hills in Israel, known for its dense concentration of stalactites and other cave formations.
2.4 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Biblical Museum of Natural History
The Biblical Museum of Natural History, currently located in Hartuv at the entrance to Beit Shemesh, Israel, was founded in 2014 by Rabbi Dr.
1.6 km · museum in Beit Shemesh, Israel · Wikipedia - 03Tel Bet Shemesh
Tel Beit Shemesh is a small archaeological tell north west of the modern city of Beit Shemesh. It was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh – it then was known as Ain Shams – by Edward Robinson.
3.1 km · hill in Jerusalem District, Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Artuf
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 29 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 94 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 96 km
- Stations
- Beit Shemesh Railway Station, 1.5 km
- Eilat → ArtufTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Amman → ArtufTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- El Arish → ArtufTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Artuf
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 Artuf. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Artuf – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Artuf
Artuf is 20 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.