Dayr Aban
Dayr Aban was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict, located on the lower slope of a high ridge that formed the western slope of a mountain, to the east of Beit Shemesh.
Dayr Aban was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict, located on the lower slope of a high ridge that formed the western slope of a mountain, to the east of Beit Shemesh. It was formerly bordered by olive trees to the north, east, and west. The valley, Wadi en-Najil, ran north and south on the west-side of the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Dayr Aban
5 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.
- 01Avshalom Cave
Avshalom Cave, known in academic literature as Soreq Cave and popularly as Stalactites Cave, is a 5,000 m2 cave on the western side of Mt. Ye'ela, in the Judean hills in Israel, known for its dense concentration of stalactites and other cave formations.
2 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Ha-Teomim cave
The Te'omim Cave, or the Twins Cave, Arabic name Mughâret Umm et-Tûeimîn, is a karstic cave within a nature reserve in Israel located on the western edges of the Jerusalem Mountains, in the vicinity of Beit Shemesh. The Te'omim Cave is a central highlight along a 3 kilometers walking trail regarded as one of the most renowned and popular touristic sites in the area.
2.2 km · cave and nature reserve in Israel · Wikipedia - 03Biblical Museum of Natural History
The Biblical Museum of Natural History, currently located in Hartuv at the entrance to Beit Shemesh, Israel, was founded in 2014 by Rabbi Dr.
1.9 km · museum in Beit Shemesh, Israel · Wikipedia - 04Tel Bet Shemesh
Tel Beit Shemesh is a small archaeological tell north west of the modern city of Beit Shemesh. It was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh – it then was known as Ain Shams – by Edward Robinson.
3.4 km · hill in Jerusalem District, Israel · Wikipedia - 05St. Stephen's Church, Beit Jimal
The St. Stephen's Church is a church in Beit Jimal, a Catholic monastery run by Salesian monks near Beit Shemesh in present-day Israel.
3.7 km · church in Beit Jimal, 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.
Getting to Dayr Aban
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 32 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 93 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 96 km
- Stations
- Beit Shemesh Railway Station, 2.4 km
- Eilat → Dayr Aban243 km · quickest by road, 5h 23m · ₪105–135
- Amman → Dayr Aban91 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · JD5–7
- El Arish → Dayr Aban134 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · E£325–430
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Dayr Aban
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 Dayr Aban. 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).
From Wikivoyage: Gush Etzion, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Next door to Dayr Aban
Dayr Aban is 20 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Beit Shemeshcity in Israel2.2 km
- Zanoahhuman settlement in Israel1.5 km
- Artufvillage in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine2.9 km
- Dayr al-Hawadepopulated Palestinian village in Jerusalem district2.8 km
- Mahseyahuman settlement in Israel700 m
- Nahamhuman settlement in Israel2.7 km