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Bnei Ayish

Bnei Ayish is a town and local council in the Central District of Israel.

Bnei Ayish
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The place

Bnei Ayish is a town and local council in the Central District of Israel. Located around ten kilometers from Ashdod and adjacent to Gedera, it had a population of 6,579 in 2024.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bnei Ayish

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.

  1. 01
    Yeshurun Central Synagogue

    The Yeshurun Central Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Biluim Street, in Gedera, Israel. It was the first synagogue to be built in the town, completed during the time of the Biluim, forerunners of the kibbutz movement 1882 from the Russian Empire.

    3.2 km · The first Synagogue in Gedera, Israel · 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 Bnei Ayish

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 27 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 117 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 118 km
  • Eilat → Bnei Ayish
    249 km · quickest by road, 5h 19m · ₪100–135
  • Amman → Bnei Ayish
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · JD6–8
  • El Arish → Bnei Ayish
    117 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · E£315–420
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bnei Ayish

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 Bnei Ayish. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBy bus, taxi ("moneet" in Hebrew), or minibus ("moneet sherut").

From Wikivoyage: Ashdod, 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

    176 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    254 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    367 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    680 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,033 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bnei Ayish

Bnei Ayish is 33 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • GederaIsraeli town in the southern part of the Shfela region3.3 km
  • Bitzaronmoshav (human settlement) in Israel3.5 km
  • Meisharhuman settlement in Israel3.4 km
  • Kannothuman settlement in Israel1.7 km
  • Neve Mivtahhuman settlement in Israel2.6 km
  • Yasurvillage in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine2.8 km