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Ein Yabrud

Ein Yabrud is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank.

Ein Yabrud
Ein Yabrud · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ein Yabrud is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank. It is located approximately 7 km northeast of the city of Ramallah and its elevation is 800 m. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) the town had a population of 2,515 in 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ein Yabrud

2 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
    Khirbet el-Maqatir

    Khirbet el-Maqatir is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, between Deir Dibwan and Beitin. Occupation began with a fortified settlement in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, followed by an Iron Age highland village.

    3.6 km · archaeological site in the West Bank · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Yovel Cave

    Yovel Cave is a massive karst cave located near the Israeli settlement of Ofra in the Benjamin region. It is recognized as the largest natural underground site in Israel.

    1.4 km · karst cave in Ofra, 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 Ein Yabrud

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 35 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 70 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 75 km
  • Eilat → Ein Yabrud
    268 km · quickest by road, 6h 5m · ₪115–155
  • Amman → Ein Yabrud
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · JD3.5–5
  • El Arish → Ein Yabrud
    165 km · quickest by road, 5h 9m · E£395–520
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ein Yabrud

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Bethlehem take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the Bethlehem bus station at Manger St.
  • Get inFrom Jericho take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the central roundabout with the garden in the middle.
  • Get aroundAs the city center is relatively small, it is not hard to walk to most destinations downtown (including the old city.) Service shuttles (shared taxis) are also available from downtown to most suburbs and to the outskirts of the city at relatively low prices (₪2.5 inside the city and up to ₪6 to nearby towns and villages).

From Wikivoyage: Ramallah, 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

    182 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    264 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    700 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,060 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ein Yabrud

Ein Yabrud is 18 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • AiCanaanite royal city3.6 km
  • Beit ElIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2.6 km
  • OfraIsraeli settlement in the West Bank1.4 km
  • BeitinPalestinian town2.4 km
  • AmonaIsraeli settlement in Binyamin which was evacuated by the Israeli government2.7 km
  • Jifnavillage council in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate3.5 km