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Shafir

Shafir is a moshav in southern Israel.

Shafir
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The place

Shafir is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Shephelah near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,074.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Shafir

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 38 km · El Arish (AAC), 111 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 120 km
  • Eilat → Shafir
    239 km · quickest by road, 5h 8m · ₪100–130
  • Amman → Shafir
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · JD6–8
  • El Arish → Shafir
    109 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · E£300–400
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shafir

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    168 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    245 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    356 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    685 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,037 km

If you know how people move in Shafir – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Shafir

Shafir is 33 km from Gaza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.