--- title: "Jalqamūs – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Jalqamūs, Palestinian Territory: Jalqamus is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 10 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jalqamus" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jalqamus.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Jalqamos_village_2019.jpg/1920px-Jalqamos_village_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Municipality type D in Jenin, State of Palestine · Palestinian Territory · West Bank # Jalqamūs Jalqamus is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 10 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. ![Jalqamūs](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Jalqamos_village_2019.jpg/1920px-Jalqamos_village_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Jalqamūs · Falcon747 The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalqamus), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Arab 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_American_University) 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 Jalqamūs **Airports:** Ben Gurion (TLV), 64 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 78 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 98 km\ - Amman → Jalqamūs 76 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · JD5–7 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-jalqamus) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=Jalqam%C5%ABs) - Tel Aviv → Jalqamūs 67 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · ₪31–41 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tel-aviv-to-jalqamus) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=Jalqam%C5%ABs) - Damascus → Jalqamūs 148 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · $19–26 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/damascus-to-jalqamus) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Damascus&to=Jalqam%C5%ABs) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Jalqam%C5%ABs) 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 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in The 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 in You then cross on foot and take a (shared) taxi or hitchhike the rest of the distance. From [Wikivoyage: Jenin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Jenin), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08. 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 234 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 317 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 444 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 673 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,040 km If you know how people move in Jalqamūs – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cjalqamus&title=Jalqam%C5%ABs&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fjalqamus), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Jalqamūs Jalqamūs is 48 km from [Irbid](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/irbid), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Deir Abu Da'if](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/deir-abu-daif) municipality in Jenin Governorate 3.5 km - [Al-Mughayyir, Jenin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-mughayyir-jenin) village council in Jenin Governorate 2 km - [Umm at-Tut](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/umm-at-tut) village council in Jenin Governorate 2.1 km [The place page for Jalqamūs](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/jalqamus) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Palestinian Territory](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-PS) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jalqamus, 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