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Tarum

Tarum is a moshav in central Israel.

Tarum
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The place

Tarum is a moshav in central Israel. Located to the north of Beit Shemesh with an area of 1,800 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 919. Tarum is built near the ancient biblical town of Zorah.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tarum

2 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
    Biblical Museum of Natural History

    The Biblical Museum of Natural History, currently located in Hartuv at the entrance to Beit Shemesh, Israel, was founded in 2014 by Rabbi Dr.

    3.4 km · museum in Beit Shemesh, Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tel Bet Shemesh

    Tel Beit Shemesh is a small archaeological tell north west of the modern city of Beit Shemesh. It was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh – it then was known as Ain Shams – by Edward Robinson.

    3.6 km · hill in Jerusalem District, Israel · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Tarum

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 27 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 96 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 98 km
Stations
Beit Shemesh Railway Station, 2.9 km
  • Eilat → Tarum
    248 km · quickest by road, 5h 27m · ₪105–140
  • Amman → Tarum
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · JD5–7
  • El Arish → Tarum
    134 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · E£330–440
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tarum

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 Tarum. 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

    169 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    249 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    368 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    695 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,051 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tarum

Tarum is 22 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.