Bat Ayin
Bat Ayin is an Israeli settlement in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, between Jerusalem and Hebron, founded in 1989 by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg, in lands that Israel confiscated from the neighbouring Palestinian villages of Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah and Jab'a.
Bat Ayin is an Israeli settlement in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, between Jerusalem and Hebron, founded in 1989 by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg, in lands that Israel confiscated from the neighbouring Palestinian villages of Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah and Jab'a. It is administered by the Gush Etzion Regional Council, with a population of less than 1,000, consisting mainly of "Ba'alei T'shuva" Jews with Hasidic tendencies. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but Israel disputes this.
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Worth seeing in and around Bat Ayin
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.
- 01Khirbet Jamjum
Khirbet Jamjum is an archaeological site located in the western Hebron Hills of the modern-day West Bank. The settlement occupies the summit and southern saddle of a prominent limestone ridge.
1.9 km · archeological site located at the western part of Gush Etzion · Wikipedia - 02Herzog College
Herzog College is an Israeli teachers' college with campuses in Jerusalem, Alon Shvut and Migdal Oz.
2 km · Israeli teachers' college · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bat Ayin
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 44 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 85 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 91 km
- Tel Aviv → Bat Ayin56 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · ₪26–34
- Eilat → Bat Ayin234 km · quickest by road, 5h 23m · ₪95–125
- Amman → Bat Ayin86 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · JD5–7
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bat Ayin
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 Bat Ayin. 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).
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Next door to Bat Ayin
Bat Ayin is 16 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Alon ShvutIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2.4 km
- Surifcity in Palestine3.5 km
- ElazarIsraeli settlement in Gush Etzion3.8 km
- Gva'otIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2.4 km