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Netanya

Netanya, or Natanya, is a city in the Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain.

Netanya
Netanya · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Netanya, or Natanya, is a city in the Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is 30 kilometres (20 mi) north of Tel Aviv, and 56 km (35 mi) south of Haifa, between the Poleg stream and the Wingate Institute in the south and the Avihayil stream in the north. The 14 km of beaches have made the city a popular tourist resort.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Netanya

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.

  1. 01
    Netanya Stadium

    Miriam Stadium, commonly known as The Diamond Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Netanya, Israel. It is used as the permanent home ground of Maccabi Netanya, and it has been used as the temporary homeground of Hapoel Hadera.

    3.9 km · football stadium in Netanya, Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Victory Monument in Netanya

    The Victory Monument in Netanya is a memorial marking the Red Army's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The monument was erected by a decision of the Government of Israel with the consent of the Russian government. It was unveiled in a 2012 ceremony at the site attended by Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, after having been first proposed by Prime Minister Netanyahu on a trip to Moscow in February 2010.

    3.2 km · monument in Netanya, Israel · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Herzl

    Pedestrian zone and city square, at the western part of the street.

  2. 02
    Netanya Market
  3. 03
    Netanya Flower
  4. 04
    The Well House

    17 Sokolov (bus lines 16, 25, 63, 65, 66, 70, 148 and 149),.

  5. 05
    Yemenite Jewish Heritage Museum
  6. 06
    Netanya City Museum

    McDonald 3 (bus line 64),.

From Wikivoyage: Netanya, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

The beach. The city is located on a cliff overlooking the beaches which stretch along the shore. There are paths down to the beach, as well as an elevator (see below) in one place. Netanya Promenade (Bus line 64). A wonderful landscaped walkway on the cliff above the beach, with great views of the sea shore.

  1. 01
    Winter pond

    Ben Gurion Street (Bus lines 32 and 71).

From Wikivoyage: Netanya, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Netanya

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 35 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 114 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 127 km
Stations
Beit Yehoshua Railway Station, 7.3 km · Netanya Railway Station, 1.5 km
  • Eilat → Netanya
    309 km · quickest by road, 6h 15m · ₪120–165
  • Amman → Netanya
    111 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · JD7–10
  • El Arish → Netanya
    168 km · quickest by road, 5h 8m · E£400–530
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Netanya

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    230 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    311 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    427 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    644 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,006 km

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

Around it

Next door to Netanya

Netanya is 28 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.