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Imwas

Imwas or Emmaus, known in classical times as Nicopolis, is a former Palestinian village ethnically cleansed by Israel, located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southeast of the city of Ramla and 26 kilometres (16 mi) from Jerusalem in the Latrun salient of the West Bank.

Imwas
Imwas · Wolfgang Moroder
The place

Imwas or Emmaus, known in classical times as Nicopolis, is a former Palestinian village ethnically cleansed by Israel, located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southeast of the city of Ramla and 26 kilometres (16 mi) from Jerusalem in the Latrun salient of the West Bank. It is traditionally identified with the biblical Emmaus. In 1967, the village's population was expelled and its buildings razed by Israeli forces as part of the Naksa during the Six-Day War.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Imwas

5 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
    Mini Israel

    Mini Israel is a miniature park located near Latrun in the Jerusalem District within the Ayalon Valley. Opened in November 2002, the site contains miniature replicas of hundreds of buildings and landmarks in Israel.

    2.2 km · miniature park in Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Yad La-Shiryon

    Yad La-Shiryon is Israel's official memorial site for fallen soldiers from the armored corps, as well as one of the most diverse tank museums in the world. The cornerstone for Yad La-Shiryon was laid on December 14, 1982.

    1.1 km · military museum in Latrun, Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Canada Park

    Canada Park is a national park stretching over 7,000 dunams in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The park is located north of Highway 1, and is situated near the Ayalon Valley, between the Latrun Interchange and Sha'ar HaGai.

    600 m · Israeli National park · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hatula

    Hatula is an early Neolithic archeological site in the Judean hills south of Latrun, beside Nahshon Stream, in Israel, 20 kilometres west of Jerusalem. The site is 15 metres above the riverbed on a rocky slope in an alluvial valley.

    1.7 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Horvat Eqed

    Khirbet el-ʻAqd or Horvat ʻEqed is an archaeological site in the Latrun salient of the West Bank, approximately 22 km northwest of Jerusalem. The site, situated on a hill, contains the ruins of an ancient fortified town dating from the Hellenistic period through the Bar Kokhba Revolt, after which the site was ultimately abandoned.

    1.6 km · archaeological site in Judea and Samaria Area, Israel · Wikipedia

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Getting to Imwas

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 21 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 96 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 96 km
  • Eilat → Imwas
    281 km · quickest by air, 4h 17m · ₪300–460
  • Amman → Imwas
    10 km · quickest by road, 26 min · JD0.5
  • El Arish → Imwas
    215 km · quickest by road, 6h 25m · E£465–620
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No local-transport research exists yet for Imwas

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

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    175 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    255 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    375 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    691 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,048 km

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

Around it

Next door to Imwas

Imwas is 23 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Neve Shalomhuman settlement2.8 km
  • Sha'alvimkibbutz located in the Central district of Israel.3.2 km
  • Dayr Ayyubvillage in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine2.9 km
  • Salbitdepopulated Palestinian village3.2 km
  • Nof AyalonCommunity settlement in Israel3.4 km
  • Bayt Susinvillage in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine4 km