Beit Iksa
Beit Iksa is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate of the State of Palestine, located northwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank.
Beit Iksa is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate of the State of Palestine, located northwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Beit Iksa
10 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.
- 01Jerusalem Chords Bridge
The Chords Bridge, also called the Bridge of Strings or Jerusalem Light Rail Bridge, is a side-spar cable-stayed bridge in Jerusalem. The structure was designed by the Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava and is used by Jerusalem Light Rail's Red Line, which began service on August 19, 2011.
3.7 km · bridge in Jerusalem, Israel · Wikipedia - 02Har HaMenuchot
Har HaMenuchot is the largest cemetery in Jerusalem.
2.2 km · mountain and cemetery in Jerusalem · Wikipedia - 03Har Hotzvim
Har Hotzvim, also Campus of Science-Rich Industries is a high-tech industrial park located in northwest Jerusalem.
3.2 km · Industrial park and mountain in Jerusalem. · Wikipedia - 04Belz Beis HaMedrash HaGadol
The Belz Great Synagogue is a Hasidic Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 7 Binat Yisas'har Street, in the Kiryat Belz neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. Designed by Aaron Ostreicher and completed in 2002, the synagogue was built by the Belz Hasidic community with financial help from its supporters around the world.
3.5 km · Large Hasidic synagogue in Jerusalem · Wikipedia - 05Tomb of Samuel
The Tomb of Samuel (Arabic: النبي صموئيل, translit. an-Nabi Samu'il or Nebi Samwil, Hebrew: קבר שמואל הנביא, translit.
1.6 km · ancient site in Judea, Palestine · Wikipedia - 06Mossad Harav Kook
Mossad HaRav Kook is a religious research foundation and publishing house based in Jerusalem. Mossad Harav Kook is named after Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine, and was founded by Yehuda Leib Maimon in 1937.
3.7 km · Religious research foundation and publishing house based in Jerusalem · Wikipedia - 07Allenby Square
Allenby Square, a name commemorating Field Marshal Edmund Allenby who commanded the British forces which captured Palestine in the First World War, has been bestowed at different times on two different squares in Jerusalem. This divergent naming was connected both to prestige struggles within the British forces entering Jerusalem in late 1917, leading to what became known as "the multiple surrenders", and to later vicissitudes of the struggle between Israelis and Arabs for control of the city.
3.9 km · square in Jerusalem · Wikipedia - 08Pool of Gibeon
The Pool of Gibeon is a site in Gibeon mentioned a number of times in the Hebrew Bible. Archeological evidence locates the historical site of the pool in the village of Jib, in the West Bank Palestinian territories.
3.3 km · site in Gibeon mentioned a number of times in the Hebrew Bible · Wikipedia - 09Tel Motza temple
Tel Motza or Tel Moẓa is an archaeological site in Motza on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israel. It includes the remains of a large Neolithic settlement dated to around 8600–8200 BCE, and Iron Age Israelite settlement dating to around 1000 to 500 BCE and identified with the biblical Mozah mentioned in the Book of Joshua.
3.1 km · ancient Israelite temple on the outskirts of Jerusalem · Wikipedia - 10Neve Yerushalayim
Neve Yerushalayim is the oldest and largest college for Jewish women in the world. Founded in 1970 to educate baalot teshuva in the why and how of living an Orthodox Jewish life, Neve has approximately 35,000 alumni.
3.3 km · college for Jewish women · Wikipedia
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Getting to Beit Iksa
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 35 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 78 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 78 km
- Stations
- Jerusalem – Yitzhak Navon railway station, 3.9 km
- Eilat → Beit Iksa252 km · quickest by air, 3h 50m · ₪320–530
- Amman → Beit Iksa74 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · JD4–6
- El Arish → Beit Iksa152 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · E£365–485
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No local-transport research exists yet for Beit Iksa
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 Beit Iksa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBy shuttle - The 'Nesher' shared taxi service (+972 2 623 1231 - Hebrew and English) is a 10-seat minibus that runs approximately hourly services to/from the airport, 24/7.
- Get inNotes: Some Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem are seen as "no go zones" by Israeli Jews, and some taxi drivers, including shared taxis, may hesitate or even refuse to take you to these destinations.
- Get inTaxi drivers, including shared taxis, have been known to overcharge or shortchange, so check the price before boarding, and check your change when it is handed back to you.
- Get inOn the Sabbath, and very late at night, your only option other than a private taxi is a sherut (shared taxi).
- Get inShared taxis are also the best option if travelling between Jerusalem and Palestinian cities in the West Bank, especially Ramallah and Bethlehem.
From Wikivoyage: Jerusalem, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Beit Iksa
Beit Iksa is 5 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Deir Yassinhuman settlement3.6 km
- Mevaseret Ziontown in Israel near Jerusalem2.9 km
- Gibeonancient city north of Jerusalem mentioned in the Bible3.3 km
- Liftadepopulated Palestinian village village on the outskirts of Jerusalem3 km
- Beit Haninavillage council in Jerusalem Governorate3.6 km
- Har Nofneighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel3.7 km