Qalqilya
Qalqilya or Qalqiliya is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, which serves as the administrative center of the Qalqilya Governorate.
Qalqilya or Qalqiliya is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, which serves as the administrative center of the Qalqilya Governorate. The city had a population of 51,683 in 2017. Qalqilya is surrounded by the Israeli West Bank wall, with a narrow gap in the east controlled by the Israeli military and a tunnel to the Palestinian town of Hableh. Qalqilya is under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority, while remaining under Israeli military occupation.
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Worth seeing in and around Qalqilya
3 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.
- 01Open University of Israel
The Open University of Israel is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education.
7.6 km · Israeli university for distance learning · Wikipedia - 02Qesem Cave
Qesem Cave is a Lower Paleolithic archaeological site near the city of Kafr Qasim in Israel. The site was occupied by early humans from about 400,000 to about 200,000 years ago.
9 km · Archaeological site · Wikipedia - 03Qalqilya Zoo
Qalqilya Zoo is a small, 2-hectare zoo in the Palestinian city of Qalqilya on the western edge of the West Bank. Established in 1986, it is the only zoo in the State of Palestine.
600 m · zoo in West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Qalqilya Zoo
It houses 170 animals, a small Natural History museum, a children's entertainment park, and on-site restaurants.
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Things to do
The separation wall surrounds the city. You can go out to the edges of the city and walk along it.
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Getting to Qalqilya
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 21 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 99 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 110 km
- Stations
- Rosh HaAyin – North Railway Station, 8.4 km · Kfar Saba – Nordau Railway Station, 5.5 km · Hod Hasharon Sokolov Railway Station, 6.6 km
- Eilat → Qalqilya293 km · quickest by road, 5h 54m · ₪115–155
- Amman → Qalqilya96 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · JD6–9
- El Arish → Qalqilya162 km · quickest by road, 4h 48m · E£380–510
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Qalqilya
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 Qalqilya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inShared taxi vans ("sherut") cover the same route on the Sabbath.
- Get inThere are no ferries or cruises to Herzliya, but you can bring your own boat into the marina.
From Wikivoyage: Herzliya, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-07.
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Next door to Qalqilya
Qalqilya is 21 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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