Ksalon
Ksalon or Kesalon is a moshav in central Israel.
Ksalon or Kesalon is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 521.
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Worth seeing in and around Ksalon
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.
- 01Avshalom Cave
Avshalom Cave, known in academic literature as Soreq Cave and popularly as Stalactites Cave, is a 5,000 m2 cave on the western side of Mt. Ye'ela, in the Judean hills in Israel, known for its dense concentration of stalactites and other cave formations.
3.2 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Scroll of Fire
Scroll of Fire is a monument found in the Forest of the Martyrs, on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. It commemorates Jewish history from The Holocaust until the independence of the State of Israel in 1948.
600 m · monument to Jewish history · Wikipedia - 03Tur Shimon
Tur Shimon or Horvat Tura, the Hebraized form of Khirbet et-Tantura, so-called after the shape of the hill, is an archaeological site in Nahal Sorek, Israel. The mountain is built like a natural fortress.
2.3 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ksalon
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 31 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 89 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 92 km
- Eilat → Ksalon247 km · quickest by road, 5h 32m · ₪105–140
- Amman → Ksalon87 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · JD5–6
- El Arish → Ksalon139 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · E£335–445
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ksalon
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 Ksalon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHitchhiking (described below) can be difficult if you have a suitcase.
- Get inIf you prefer to hitchhike, take the 31 or 32 local buses to the trempiada (see below).
- Get inIf you don't have a car, the fastest, cheapest and easiest travel option is hitchhiking, or in Israeli English, "to catch a tremp".
- Get inThe main hitchhiking hub is in the southern exit from Jerusalem, a place called "Tzomet HaMinharot", or informally the trempiada.
- Get inFrom here you can get another tremp to a specific settlement, although many Israelis consider it unsafe to hitchhike here (in the past, it has been the site of kidnappings and shootings by Palestinians).
From Wikivoyage: Gush Etzion, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Next door to Ksalon
Ksalon is 16 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Eshtaolmoshav in Jerusalem District, central Israel3.8 km
- Beit Meirhuman settlement in Israel2.5 km
- Ramat Razielhuman settlement in Israel2.2 km
- Bayt Mahsirvillage in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine2.7 km
- SarisPalestinian Arab village3.5 km
- Sho'evahuman settlement in Israel3.8 km