Shilat
Shilat is a moshav partially in Israel and partially in the Latrun salient of the Green Line.
Shilat is a moshav partially in Israel and partially in the Latrun salient of the Green Line. Located around a kilometre north of Modi'in, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 838.
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Worth seeing in and around Shilat
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.
- 01Khirbet Abu ad-Danin
Khirbet Abu ad-Danin, Horvat Abu a-Danin or Kh. Abu ed-Dinein is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, just south of Modi'in Illit.
1.9 km · archaeological site in the central West Bank · Wikipedia - 02Khirbet Badd 'Isa
Khirbet Bad 'Issa or Khirbet Bad-'Issa is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, within Modi'in Illit. Archaeological evidence suggests that the site was founded in the 3rd century BCE, during the Hellenistic period, as a seasonal agricultural settlement.
2.3 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia - 03Bareket observatory
The Bareket Observatory is an astronomical educational observatory owned and operated by the Bareket family. It is located east of the city of Maccabim, near Modiin, in central Israel.
3.8 km · observatory in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shilat
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 16 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 92 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 95 km
- Eilat → Shilat263 km · quickest by road, 5h 37m · ₪110–145
- Amman → Shilat88 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · JD5–6
- El Arish → Shilat146 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · E£350–470
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shilat
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 Shilat. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Shilat
Shilat is 24 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'utcity in Israel1.7 km
- GANEY MODIINIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2.7 km
- Ni'linmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate2.9 km
- HashmonaimIsraeli settlement in the Western Binyamin region1.2 km
- Kfar HaOranimterrorist settlement in the West Bank where Eliezer and Daniel who came first in The Amazing Race's Semi Final live1.7 km
- Kfar RuthIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2 km