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Palestinian village in Jerusalem Governate, West Bank · Israel

Biddu, Jerusalem

Biddu is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate, located 6 kilometers northwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank.

Biddu, Jerusalem
Biddu, Jerusalem · PRAVEEN (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Biddu is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate, located 6 kilometers northwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 8,231 in 2017. Biddu is at an altitude of 806m to 834m. Giv'on HaHadasha lies 2 km east of Biddu.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Biddu, Jerusalem

4 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.

  1. 01
    Tomb of Samuel

    The Tomb of Samuel (Arabic: النبي صموئيل, translit. an-Nabi Samu'il or Nebi Samwil, Hebrew: קבר שמואל הנביא, translit.

    3.3 km · ancient site in Judea, Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Cleophas Church

    The St. Cleophas Church or St.

    1.2 km · church in El Qubeibeh, Palestine · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Khirbet Nij'm

    Khirbet Nij'm is an archaeological site on the hill of Givat ha-Radar at Har Adar, in the West Bank. Salvage excavations carried out at the site uncovered a fortified structure identified as a fortress of the Persian–Hellenistic period, which was later reused as an Ottoman-period caravanserai.

    1.6 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Khirbet Kefireh

    Khirbet Kefireh, also Khirbet Kefire, Khirbet el-Kefirah, is an archeological site just north of the Palestinian town of Qatanna, West Bank. It is situated atop a hill covering about 4-5 acres.

    3.7 km · archaeological site in State of Palestine · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Biddu, Jerusalem

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 31 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 81 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 81 km
  • Eilat → Biddu, Jerusalem
    254 km · quickest by air, 3h 46m · ₪320–510
  • Amman → Biddu, Jerusalem
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · JD4–6
  • El Arish → Biddu, Jerusalem
    150 km · quickest by road, 4h 53m · E£350–470
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Biddu, Jerusalem

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 Biddu, Jerusalem. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundYou are almost always advised to use Shared Taxis which will be quicker although marginally more expensive.
  • Get aroundBuses, like shared taxis will also tend to wait until full before departing.
  • Get aroundMost shared taxis have fixed bus-stations, often car-parks near the centre of towns or cities.
  • Get aroundLarger minivans carry 7 passengers and inner-city shared taxis carry 4.
  • Get aroundShared taxis are often distinguished with black stripes on front and back at the sides, particularly the normal-sized cars serving inner-city routes.

From Wikivoyage: Palestinian territories, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    171 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    253 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    376 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    702 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,060 km

If you know how people move in Biddu, Jerusalem – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Biddu, Jerusalem

Biddu, Jerusalem is 9 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.