Nes Harim
Nes Harim is a moshav settlement in central Israel.
Nes Harim is a moshav settlement in central Israel. Located in the Judean foothills near Beit Shemesh and eight kilometres west of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,272.
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Worth seeing in and around Nes Harim
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.
- 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.
3.5 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Ha-Teomim cave
The Te'omim Cave, or the Twins Cave, Arabic name Mughâret Umm et-Tûeimîn, is a karstic cave within a nature reserve in Israel located on the western edges of the Jerusalem Mountains, in the vicinity of Beit Shemesh. The Te'omim Cave is a central highlight along a 3 kilometers walking trail regarded as one of the most renowned and popular touristic sites in the area.
3.9 km · cave and nature reserve in Israel · Wikipedia - 03Scroll 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.
3.4 km · monument to Jewish history · Wikipedia - 04Tur 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.
1.2 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Nes Harim
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 34 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 88 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 92 km
- Eilat → Nes Harim244 km · quickest by road, 5h 32m · ₪105–140
- Amman → Nes Harim87 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · JD5–7
- El Arish → Nes Harim138 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · E£330–440
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No local-transport research exists yet for Nes Harim
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 Nes Harim. 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 Nes Harim
Nes Harim is 15 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ramat Razielhuman settlement in Israel3.5 km
- Bar Giorahuman settlement in Israel2.1 km
- Matatown in Israel3 km
- Al-Tannur, Khirbatvillage in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine3.6 km
- Bayt 'Itabvillage in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine1.2 km
- Dayr al-Hawadepopulated Palestinian village in Jerusalem district2.1 km