Sderot

Worth seeing in and around Sderot

4 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
   Umm al-Naser Mosque

   The Umm al-Nasr Mosque, also known as the Beit Hanoun Mosque, is the oldest mosque in the Palestinian city of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the center of the city and was built in 1239 CE. The mosque was heavily damaged in the 2006 Israeli operation in Beit Hanoun and the Gaza war.

   6 km · mosque in Gaza Strip, Palestine · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Sapir Academic College

   Sapir College is a college in Israel, located in the northwestern Negev desert near Sderot. It is one of Israel’s largest public colleges and the largest employer in the Gaza Envelope region.

   1.5 km · college in Israel · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Byzantine Church of Jabalia

   The Byzantine Church of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, which today is the remains of a Christian basilica church, includes graves and mosaic floors surrounded by marble columns on an area of 850 square metres, including 400 square metres paved with mosaics. The church was established in the 5th century and was used until the 8th century.

   9.1 km · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia
4. 04
   The Car Wall

   The Car Wall is a pile of burnt cars west of Tkuma in the Gaza envelope, resembling the shape of a wall. Originally, this pile was created by evacuating the burnt cars from Route 232 and other places in the Gaza envelope after the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, in general, and the massacre at the Nova Festival in particular, from where most of the cars came.

   8.6 km · memorial in Israel · Wikipedia

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Where to eat

1. 01
   Sushi Moto

   Frequented by students from the nearby college.

From Wikivoyage: Sderot, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Sderot

Airports

Ben Gurion (TLV), 61 km · El Arish (AAC), 90 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 134 km

• Tel Aviv → Sderot

  64 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · ₪25–33
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• Eilat → Sderot

  221 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · ₪90–120
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• El Arish → Sderot

  88 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · E£275–365
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sderot

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

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