Mevo Beitar
Mevo Beitar is a moshav shitufi in central Israel.
Mevo Beitar is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located ten kilometres south-west of Jerusalem in the Jerusalem corridor, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,153.
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Worth seeing in and around Mevo Beitar
2 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.
- 01Yad Kennedy
Yad Kennedy, located in the Mateh Yehuda Region near Jerusalem, is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. The 60-foot-high memorial is shaped like the stump of a felled tree, symbolizing a life cut short.
4 km · Memorial in Mateh Yehuda Region, Israel · Wikipedia - 02Betar
Betar was an ancient Jewish town in the Judaean Mountains, continuously inhabited since the Iron Age and up until the 2nd century CE. It is most famously known as the final stronghold of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. It was besieged and destroyed by the Romans in 135 CE. Betar appears in various ancient sources, including the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds, as well as in midrashic literature and Patristic writings.
2.9 km · last Judah's fort held in the Bar Kokhba's revolt and adjacent modern locations · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mevo Beitar
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 38 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 84 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 88 km
- Eilat → Mevo Beitar241 km · quickest by road, 5h 29m · ₪105–140
- Amman → Mevo Beitar83 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · JD5–6
- El Arish → Mevo Beitar141 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · E£330–440
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No local-transport research exists yet for Mevo Beitar
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 Mevo Beitar. 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).
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Next door to Mevo Beitar
Mevo Beitar is 12 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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