Qatra
Qatra was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) southwest of the city of Ramla and 40 kilometers (25 mi) west of Jerusalem, some 50 meters (160 ft) above sea level.
Qatra was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) southwest of the city of Ramla and 40 kilometers (25 mi) west of Jerusalem, some 50 meters (160 ft) above sea level. It was depopulated in May 1948.
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Worth seeing in and around Qatra
One place 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.
- 01Yeshurun Central Synagogue
The Yeshurun Central Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Biluim Street, in Gedera, Israel. It was the first synagogue to be built in the town, completed during the time of the Biluim, forerunners of the kibbutz movement 1882 from the Russian Empire.
800 m · The first Synagogue in Gedera, Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Qatra
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 23 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 115 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 116 km
- Eilat → Qatra702 km · quickest by air, 8h 20m · ₪810–1,230
- Amman → Qatra109 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · JD6–8
- El Arish → Qatra122 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · E£325–430
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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 Qatra
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 Qatra. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Qatra
Qatra is 29 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- GederaIsraeli town in the southern part of the Shfela region900 m
- Bnei Ayishhuman settlement in Israel3.9 km
- Beit Elazarihuman settlement in Israel3.5 km
- Aserethuman settlement in Israel2.9 km
- Kfar Mordechaihuman settlement in Israel2.2 km
- Al-Magharvillage in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine1.9 km