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Nir Galim

Nir Galim is a religious moshav shitufi in south-central Israel, adjacent to the city of Ashdod.

Nir Galim
Nir Galim · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Nir Galim is a religious moshav shitufi in south-central Israel, adjacent to the city of Ashdod. Located in the southern coastal plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,251.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nir Galim

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
    Yud-Alef Stadium

    The Yud-Alef Stadium is a football stadium in Ashdod, Israel, that was built for local football sides Maccabi Ashdod, Beitar Ashdod and Hapoel Ashdod.

    3.7 km · Football stadium in Ashdod · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ashdod Light

    Ashdod Light, is a lighthouse in Ashdod, Israel. It is located in Yona Hill, a 53 metres above sea level hill at the northern part Ashdod, just south of the Port of Ashdod.

    3.7 km · lighthouse in 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.

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Getting to Nir Galim

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 28 km · El Arish (AAC), 118 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 124 km
  • Eilat → Nir Galim
    254 km · quickest by road, 5h 26m · ₪105–140
  • Amman → Nir Galim
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · JD6–8
  • El Arish → Nir Galim
    114 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · E£330–440
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nir Galim

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBy bus, taxi ("moneet" in Hebrew), or minibus ("moneet sherut").

From Wikivoyage: Ashdod, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    183 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    260 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    370 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    672 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,025 km

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

Around it

Next door to Nir Galim

Nir Galim is 30 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.