Jaba‘
Jaba' is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, in the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine, located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) southwest of the city of Jenin.
Jaba' is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, in the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine, located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) southwest of the city of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 8,942 in the 2007 census and 10,413 by 2017. '
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Worth seeing in and around Jaba‘
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.
- 01Mount Hureish
Mount Hureish is a mountain in the northern West Bank, part of the broader Jabal Nablus range. It abuts the Marj Sanur valley to the south and its peak is 764 metres above sea level, making it the tallest mountain in the Jenin area, and the sixth highest peak in the Palestine.
3.5 km · mountain in State of Palestine · Wikipedia
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Getting to Jaba‘
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 47 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 82 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 99 km
- Tel Aviv → Jaba‘50 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · ₪24–32
- Amman → Jaba‘80 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · JD6–8
- Beirut → Jaba‘176 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · $28–39
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No local-transport research exists yet for Jaba‘
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 Jaba‘. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Ben Gurion it is cheapest to take a "sherut" (shared taxi) to the bus station on Nablus Road by Damascus Gate, and then follow the directions above to Nablus.
- Go nextShared minibus taxis (sherut/servees) leaving Nablus tend to congregate around the center of town and along the two-sided Al-Gazalah (Al-Hadadeen) Street going southeast out of town.
- Go nextTo get there by hitchhiking, take a sherut to Tubas (₪7.50) and from there hitchhike east through Tayasir and Aqabah to the highway #578 or #90, and then north past the Israeli checkpoint.
From Wikivoyage: Nablus, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Jaba‘ is 50 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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