Beitar Illit
Beitar Illit is a Haredi Jewish-Israeli settlement organized as a city council in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, ten kilometres (6 mi) southwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank.
Beitar Illit is a Haredi Jewish-Israeli settlement organized as a city council in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, ten kilometres (6 mi) southwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank. Beitar Illit is one of Israel's largest and most rapidly growing settlements, and in 2024 had a population of 71,697.
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Worth seeing in and around Beitar Illit
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.
- 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.
3.9 km · archeological site located at the western part of Gush Etzion · Wikipedia
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Getting to Beitar Illit
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 41 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 83 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 88 km
- Tel Aviv → Beitar Illit53 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · ₪24–32
- Eilat → Beitar Illit239 km · quickest by road, 5h 40m · ₪105–140
- Amman → Beitar Illit83 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · JD5–6
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No local-transport research exists yet for Beitar Illit
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 Beitar Illit. 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 Beitar Illit
Beitar Illit is 12 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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