--- title: "H̱ad Nes – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "H̱ad Nes, Israel: Had Ness is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement in the Golan Heights. Nearby: Bethsaida, Hexagon pool, Ed-Dikke…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/had-nes" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/had-nes.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Had_Ness), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethsaida) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagon_Pool) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed-Dikke_synagogue) 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. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tel-aviv-to-had-nes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=H%CC%B1ad+Nes) - Eilat → H̱ad Nes 381 km · quickest by air, 4h 25m · ₪460–700 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eilat-to-had-nes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eilat&to=H%CC%B1ad+Nes) - Amman → H̱ad Nes 112 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · JD6–8 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-had-nes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=H%CC%B1ad+Nes) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=H%CC%B1ad%20Nes) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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 in Hitchhiking is accepted here as it is throughout Israel, but you can still wait a long time to get to many destinations. - Get in Hitchhiking is easiest in the southern Golan Heights, as more people live there. - Get in In the center and north, the traffic is mostly tourists, who are less likely to pick up hitchhikers. - Get around You might try hitch-hiking, which is used by Israelis of all ages and gender. From [Wikivoyage: Golan Heights](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 290 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 373 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 504 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 660 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 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](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Chad-nes&title=H%CC%B1ad+Nes&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fhad-nes), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to H̱ad Nes H̱ad Nes is 46 km from [Irbid](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/irbid), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Golan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/golan) ancient city 2.9 km - [Al-Butayha](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-butayha) village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine 2.2 km - [Karkom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/karkom) human settlement in Israel 3.2 km [The place page for H̱ad Nes](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/had-nes) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Israel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IL) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/had-nes, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt