Naẖam

Worth seeing in and around Naẖam

4 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
   Avshalom 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.

   2.2 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Biblical Museum of Natural History

   The Biblical Museum of Natural History, currently located in Hartuv at the entrance to Beit Shemesh, Israel, was founded in 2014 by Rabbi Dr.

   1.6 km · museum in Beit Shemesh, Israel · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Tel Bet Shemesh

   Tel Beit Shemesh is a small archaeological tell north west of the modern city of Beit Shemesh. It was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh – it then was known as Ain Shams – by Edward Robinson.

   3.3 km · hill in Jerusalem District, Israel · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Scroll 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.

   3.8 km · monument to Jewish history · Wikipedia

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Getting to Naẖam

Airports

Ben Gurion (TLV), 29 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 94 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 96 km

Stations

Beit Shemesh Railway Station, 1.6 km

• Eilat → Naẖam

  246 km · quickest by road, 5h 20m · ₪100–135
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• Amman → Naẖam

  91 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · JD5–7
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• El Arish → Naẖam

  135 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · E£320–430
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No local-transport research exists yet for Naẖam

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 Naẖam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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