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Kfar HaOranim

Kfar HaOranim, also known as Menorah or Giv'at Ehud, is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

Kfar HaOranim
Kfar HaOranim · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kfar HaOranim, also known as Menorah or Giv'at Ehud, is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Contiguous with Lapid and located near to the major city of Modi'in, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 2,314.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kfar HaOranim

3 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
    Khirbet Badd 'Isa

    Khirbet Bad 'Issa or Khirbet Bad-'Issa is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, within Modi'in Illit. Archaeological evidence suggests that the site was founded in the 3rd century BCE, during the Hellenistic period, as a seasonal agricultural settlement.

    900 m · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Khirbet Abu ad-Danin

    Khirbet Abu ad-Danin, Horvat Abu a-Danin or Kh. Abu ed-Dinein is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, just south of Modi'in Illit.

    700 m · archaeological site in the central West Bank · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bareket observatory

    The Bareket Observatory is an astronomical educational observatory owned and operated by the Bareket family. It is located east of the city of Maccabim, near Modiin, in central Israel.

    3.5 km · observatory in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel · Wikipedia

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 Kfar HaOranim

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 18 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 90 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 93 km
  • Eilat → Kfar HaOranim
    263 km · quickest by road, 5h 39m · ₪110–145
  • Amman → Kfar HaOranim
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · JD5–6
  • El Arish → Kfar HaOranim
    147 km · quickest by road, 4h 32m · E£355–470
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kfar HaOranim

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 Kfar HaOranim. 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

    182 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    263 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    384 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    688 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,046 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kfar HaOranim

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

  • Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'utcity in Israel3.2 km
  • GANEY MODIINIsraeli settlement in the West Bank1.6 km
  • Bil'inPalestinian village in the occupied West Bank3.2 km
  • Ni'linmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate3.4 km
  • HashmonaimIsraeli settlement in the Western Binyamin region2.1 km
  • Kfar RuthIsraeli settlement in the West Bank1.1 km