Rawabi
Rawabi is the first planned city built for and by Palestinians in the West Bank, and is hailed as a "flagship Palestinian enterprise." Rawabi is located near Birzeit and Ramallah.
Rawabi is the first planned city built for and by Palestinians in the West Bank, and is hailed as a "flagship Palestinian enterprise." Rawabi is located near Birzeit and Ramallah. The master plan envisages a high tech city with 6,000 housing units, housing a population of between 25,000 and 40,000 people, spread across six neighborhoods.
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Worth seeing in and around Rawabi
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.
- 01Birzeit University
Birzeit University is a public university in the West Bank, Palestine, registered by the Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs as a charitable organization. It is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education and located in the outskirts of Birzeit, near Ramallah.
5.7 km · public university in the West Bank, State of Palestine · Wikipedia - 02The Palestinian Museum
The Palestinian Museum is a museum in Birzeit, in the West Bank, Palestine, that was inaugurated on 18 May 2016. It is a flagship project of the Welfare Association, a non-profit organization for developing humanitarian projects in Palestine.
5.2 km · museum in Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia - 03Maqam Sheikh al-Qatrawani
The Maqam Sheikh al-Qatrawani is an Islamic shrine, located on the Dahrat Hamoud hill about 1.5 km south-west of Atara in the State of Palestine. The maqam was first established during the Mamluk rule over Palestine as one of a series of 16th-century watchtowers overlooking the nearby coast.
2.2 km · tomb-shrine in Atara, West Bank · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rawabi
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 28 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 76 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 83 km
- Eilat → Rawabi274 km · quickest by road, 6h 17m · ₪120–160
- Amman → Rawabi71 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · JD4–5
- El Arish → Rawabi165 km · quickest by road, 5h 10m · E£395–530
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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 Rawabi
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 Rawabi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHitchhiking (Tremp) Ariel is long and narrow (it follows the crest of a long mountain ridge), so it could be a long walk from one part to another.
- Go nextHitch a ride, or take Palestinian licence-plated taxi, from Ariel Junction to Nablus.
From Wikivoyage: Ariel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.
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If you know how people move in Rawabi – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Rawabi
Rawabi is 26 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Nabi Salihvillage in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, Cisjordan5.7 km
- BirzeitPalestinian town north of Ramallah4.3 km
- HalamishIsraeli settlement in the West Bank, Palestine5.5 km
- Abweinvillage in Palestine2.8 km
- Ajjulvillage council in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate1.5 km
- 'AtaraPalestinian village2.2 km