--- title: "Har Adar – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Har Adar, Israel: Har Adar is an Israeli settlement organized as a local council in the Seam Zone and the Maccabim sub-region of the West Bank. Nearby…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/har-adar" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/har-adar.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/HarAdarDec092022_01.jpg/3840px-HarAdarDec092022_01.jpg" --- Israeli settlement in the West Bank · Jerusalem # Har Adar Har Adar is an Israeli settlement organized as a local council in the Seam Zone and the Maccabim sub-region of the West Bank. ![Har Adar](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/HarAdarDec092022_01.jpg/3840px-HarAdarDec092022_01.jpg) Har Adar · Wikimedia Commons The place Har Adar is an Israeli settlement organized as a local council in the Seam Zone and the Maccabim sub-region of the West Bank. Founded in 1986, it had a population of 4,339 in 2024. It is located near Abu Ghosh and the Green Line on Road 425, approximately 15 kilometers west of Jerusalem. Har Adar is ranked high on the Israeli socio-economic scale, at 9/10. Har Adar was initially built adjacent to the Green Line but is now largely located within the West Bank. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_Adar), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Har Adar 8 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. Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh The Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh, officially St Mary of the Resurrection Abbey, is a monastery run by the Olivetan Benedictine order in Abu Ghosh, Israel. Its church is built on the foundations of the Crusader-period Church of the Resurrection, or Church of our Lord's Resurrection. 2.9 km · monastery of the Olivetan Benedictine order in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictine_monastery_in_Abu_Ghosh) 2. St. Cleophas Church The St. Cleophas Church or St. 1.7 km · church in El Qubeibeh, Palestine · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Cleophas_Church) 3. Castel National Park Castel National Park is an Israeli national park, which consists of a fortified summit in the Judean Mountains, at the site of the former Palestinian village of Al-Qastal, known to Hebrew-speakers as HaCástel, "the Cástel". It is located 8 km west of Jerusalem on the road linking it to Tel Aviv. 3.6 km · Israeli national park · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castel_National_Park) 4. Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church The Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located on the northwestern edge of the town of Abu Ghosh in the central Israel. The church is at an altitude of 756 meters above sea level. 3.3 km · church building in Abu Ghosh, Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Ark_of_the_Covenant_Church) 5. Resurrection Church, Abu Ghosh The Resurrection Church, or the Church of the Crusaders in Abu Gosh, is the name given to a Catholic religious building consisting of a structure of the time of the Crusaders who belonged to the Knights Hospitaller, and today is a part of the Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh, in central Israel. The church is located in a place that was interpreted as described in Luke as Emmaus. 3 km · church building in Abu Ghosh, Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Resurrection,_Abu_Ghosh) 6. Khirbet Nij'm Khirbet Nij'm is an archaeological site on the hill of Givat ha-Radar at Har Adar, in the West Bank. Salvage excavations carried out at the site uncovered a fortified structure identified as a fortress of the Persian–Hellenistic period, which was later reused as an Ottoman-period caravanserai. 200 m · archaeological site in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirbet_Nij%27m) 7. Khirbet Kefireh Khirbet Kefireh, also Khirbet Kefire, Khirbet el-Kefirah, is an archeological site just north of the Palestinian town of Qatanna, West Bank. It is situated atop a hill covering about 4-5 acres. 2.2 km · archaeological site in State of Palestine · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirbet_Kefireh) 8. Horbat Mazruq Horbat Mazruq is an archaeological site located in the Judaean Mountains of modern-day Israel, near the villages of Abu Ghosh and Kiryat Ye'arim. Situated along an ancient Roman road connecting Emmaus and Jerusalem, the site encompasses the remains of a Jewish village that seems to have flourished from the late 2nd century BCE until its abandonment around the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. The site, first discovered in 2009, is home to a large underground hiding complex, which includes narrow passageways and rock-cut shafts, likely used during the First Jewish–Roman War. 3.9 km · archaeological site in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horbat_Mazruq) 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 Har Adar **Airports:** Ben Gurion (TLV), 31 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 82 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 83 km\ - Eilat → Har Adar 253 km · quickest by air, 3h 46m · ₪320–510 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eilat-to-har-adar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eilat&to=Har+Adar) - Amman → Har Adar 78 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · JD4.5–6 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-har-adar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=Har+Adar) - El Arish → Har Adar 149 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · E£345–460 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/el-arish-to-har-adar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=El+Arish&to=Har+Adar) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Har%20Adar) 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 Har Adar 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 Har Adar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around You are almost always advised to use Shared Taxis which will be quicker although marginally more expensive. - Get around Buses, like shared taxis will also tend to wait until full before departing. - Get around Most shared taxis have fixed bus-stations, often car-parks near the centre of towns or cities. - Get around Larger minivans carry 7 passengers and inner-city shared taxis carry 4. - Get around Shared taxis are often distinguished with black stripes on front and back at the sides, particularly the normal-sized cars serving inner-city routes. From [Wikivoyage: Palestinian territories](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Palestinian_territories), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. 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 170 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 252 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 375 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 701 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,059 km If you know how people move in Har Adar – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Char-adar&title=Har+Adar&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fhar-adar), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Har Adar Har Adar is 10 km from [West Jerusalem](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-jerusalem), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Mevaseret Zion](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mevaseret-zion) town in Israel near Jerusalem 3.4 km - [Kiryat Ye'arim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kiryat-yearim) human settlement in Israel 3.7 km - [Giv'on HaHadasha](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/givon-hahadasha) Israeli settlement in the West Bank 3.6 km - [Biddu, Jerusalem](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/biddu-jerusalem) town 1.7 km - [Al-Qubayba, Jerusalem](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-qubayba-jerusalem) small Palestinian town 1.7 km - [Qatanna](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/qatanna) municipality in Jerusalem Governorate 2.1 km [The place page for Har Adar](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/har-adar) [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/har-adar, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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