Nahalin
Nahalin, also spelled Nahaleen, is a Palestinian village located in the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine, to the southwest of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
Nahalin, also spelled Nahaleen, is a Palestinian village located in the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine, to the southwest of Bethlehem in the West Bank. The village was well known for beekeeping and tens of beehives still exist in Nahalin today. The village is also known locally for its almond and olive trees, vineyards, parsley and vegetables, namely onions and beans. The built-up area of Nahalin consists of roughly 730 dunams, 20 of which make up the old center of the village. The village had a population of 8,741 in 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Nahalin
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.
- 01Khirbet Jamjum
Khirbet Jamjum is an archaeological site located in the western Hebron Hills of the modern-day West Bank. The settlement occupies the summit and southern saddle of a prominent limestone ridge.
2.9 km · archeological site located at the western part of Gush Etzion · Wikipedia - 02Herzog College
Herzog College is an Israeli teachers' college with campuses in Jerusalem, Alon Shvut and Migdal Oz.
3.1 km · Israeli teachers' college · Wikipedia
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Getting to Nahalin
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 42 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 83 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 89 km
- Tel Aviv → Nahalin54 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · ₪25–33
- Eilat → Nahalin237 km · quickest by road, 5h 27m · ₪95–130
- Amman → Nahalin84 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · JD5–6
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No local-transport research exists yet for Nahalin
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 Nahalin. 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 Nahalin
Nahalin is 13 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Bat AyinIsraeli settlement in Gush Etzion3.3 km
- Alon ShvutIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3.5 km
- Neve DanielIsraeli settlement in Gush Etzion2.7 km
- ElazarIsraeli settlement in Gush Etzion3.7 km
- Gva'otIsraeli settlement in the West Bank1.5 km