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Saydun

Saydun was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine.

The place

Saydun was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948, during Operation Nachshon. It was located 9 km south of Ramla on the east bank of Wadi Saydun.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Saydun

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.

  1. 01
    Gezer

    Gezer is an archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains at the border of the Shephelah roughly midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in central Israel. It is now an Israeli national park.

    2.4 km · archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains · Wikipedia

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Getting to Saydun

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 19 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 104 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 104 km
  • Eilat → Saydun
    1950 km · quickest by road, 43h 12m · ₪890–1,190
  • Amman → Saydun
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · JD5–7
  • El Arish → Saydun
    132 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · E£325–430
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Saydun

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 Saydun. 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

    177 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    257 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    374 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    685 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,041 km

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Around it

Next door to Saydun

Saydun is 29 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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