Gilon
Gilon is a community settlement in northern Israel.
Gilon is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Lower Galilee on Mount Gilon seven kilometres west of Karmiel, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,202.
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Worth seeing in and around Gilon
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.
- 01HaYonim Cave
HaYonim Cave is a cave located in a limestone bluff about 250 meters above modern sea level, in the Upper Galilee, Israel.
2.5 km · cave in 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 Gilon
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 104 km · Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 105 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 125 km
- Tel Aviv → Gilon101 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · ₪42–55
- Eilat → Gilon373 km · quickest by road, 7h 11m · ₪150–195
- Amman → Gilon125 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · JD7–9
- 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 Gilon
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 Gilon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHitch-hiking is definitely an option and easy along the non-highway roads, also where buses are sparse.
- Get aroundJewish Israelis are more wary nowadays, which in other parts of the country can be an issue when hitch-hiking.
From Wikivoyage: Upper Galilee, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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