Bar Giora
Bar Giora is a moshav in the Judean Mountains in Israel.
Bar Giora is a moshav in the Judean Mountains in Israel. Located between Beit Shemesh and Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 757.
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Worth seeing in and around Bar Giora
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.
- 01Tur Shimon
Tur Shimon or Horvat Tura, the Hebraized form of Khirbet et-Tantura, so-called after the shape of the hill, is an archaeological site in Nahal Sorek, Israel. The mountain is built like a natural fortress.
3.1 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bar Giora
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 36 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 87 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 91 km
- Eilat → Bar Giora244 km · quickest by road, 5h 55m · ₪105–140
- Amman → Bar Giora85 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · JD4.5–6
- El Arish → Bar Giora139 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · E£335–450
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bar Giora
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 Bar Giora. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Bar Giora
Bar Giora is 14 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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