Jalqamūs
Jalqamus is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 10 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
Jalqamus is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 10 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,867 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,624 by 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Jalqamūs
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.
- 01Arab American University
The Arab American University or AAUP is the first private university in Palestine founded in 2000. AAUP's main campus is located near Talfit in the south of the Jenin Governorate.
2.7 km · private university in Palestine · Wikipedia
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Getting to Jalqamūs
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 64 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 78 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 98 km
- Amman → Jalqamūs76 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · JD5–7
- Tel Aviv → Jalqamūs67 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · ₪31–41
- Damascus → Jalqamūs148 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · $19–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Jalqamūs
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 Jalqamūs. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe most logical way to enter would be to fly into Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, take a taxi or mini-bus to Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, from there at one of Arab bus stations take bus 18 to Ramallah (₪6.50, less than an hour), cross into Ramallah and take a shared taxi from the central bus station to Jenin (₪35, 1.5-2 h).
- Get inYou then cross on foot and take a (shared) taxi or hitchhike the rest of the distance.
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Next door to Jalqamūs
Jalqamūs is 48 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Deir Abu Da'ifmunicipality in Jenin Governorate3.5 km
- Al-Mughayyir, Jeninvillage council in Jenin Governorate2 km
- Umm at-Tutvillage council in Jenin Governorate2.1 km