Elkana
Elkana or Elqana is an Israeli settlement and local council in the north-western Samarian hills in the West Bank, located 3.1 km to the east of the Green Line and the city of Rosh HaAyin.
Elkana or Elqana is an Israeli settlement and local council in the north-western Samarian hills in the West Bank, located 3.1 km to the east of the Green Line and the city of Rosh HaAyin. It was founded in 1977 by a group from Gush Emunim of religious and non-religious Jews, and by July 2020 it had a population of 3858.
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Worth seeing in and around Elkana
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.
- 01Sanniriya Mosque
Sanniriya Mosque is a mosque located in the center of the village of Sanniriya in the Qalqilya Governorate in the West Bank, Palestine. It is considered one of the archaeological and historical landmarks of the Qalqilya Governorate.
2.4 km · A historic mosque in the Qalqilya Governorate · Wikipedia
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Getting to Elkana
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 18 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 92 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 100 km
- Eilat → Elkana284 km · quickest by road, 5h 53m · ₪115–155
- Amman → Elkana87 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · JD5–7
- El Arish → Elkana161 km · quickest by road, 4h 46m · E£375–500
- 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 Elkana
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 Elkana. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHitchhiking (Tremp) Ariel is long and narrow (it follows the crest of a long mountain ridge), so it could be a long walk from one part to another.
- Go nextHitch a ride, or take Palestinian licence-plated taxi, from Ariel Junction to Nablus.
From Wikivoyage: Ariel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.
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Next door to Elkana
Elkana is 24 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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