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Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights · Northern District

H̱ad Nes

Had Ness is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement in the Golan Heights.

The place

Had Ness is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement in the Golan Heights. Located adjacent to the Jordan River, it falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 885.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around H̱ad Nes

3 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
    Bethsaida

    Bethsaida, also known as Julias or Julia, is a place mentioned in the New Testament. Julias lay in an administrative district known as Gaulonitis, now the Golan Heights.

    2.2 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hexagon pool

    The Hexagon Pool is a natural pool by the Meshushim River in the Yehudiya Forest Nature Reserve, the central Golan Heights. The pool, at the bottom of a canyon, is named after the shape of the hexagonal basalt columns that make up its walls.

    2.5 km · lake in Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ed-Dikke synagogue

    The ed-Dikke Synagogue is an ancient Jewish synagogue, located 3 km north of the Sea of Galilee on the eastern bank of the Jordan River in what are the Golan Heights,, Syria.

    1.7 km · ancient synagogue · 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 H̱ad Nes

Airports
Damascus (DAM), 97 km · Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 100 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 111 km
  • Tel Aviv → H̱ad Nes
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · ₪55–70
  • Eilat → H̱ad Nes
    381 km · quickest by air, 4h 25m · ₪460–700
  • Amman → H̱ad Nes
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · JD6–8
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for H̱ad Nes

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHitchhiking is accepted here as it is throughout Israel, but you can still wait a long time to get to many destinations.
  • Get inHitchhiking is easiest in the southern Golan Heights, as more people live there.
  • Get inIn the center and north, the traffic is mostly tourists, who are less likely to pick up hitchhikers.
  • Get aroundYou might try hitch-hiking, which is used by Israelis of all ages and gender.

From Wikivoyage: Golan Heights, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    290 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    373 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    504 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    660 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,033 km

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

Around it

Next door to H̱ad Nes

H̱ad Nes is 46 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Golanancient city2.9 km
  • Al-Butayhavillage in Safad, Mandatory Palestine2.2 km
  • Karkomhuman settlement in Israel3.2 km