Tzur Hadassah
Tzur Hadassah is a town located in the Jerusalem Corridor, located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Jerusalem, at an altitude of 755 meters above sea level, located on Route 375 west of Beitar Illit, about one kilometer west of the Green Line, adjacent to the Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin.
Tzur Hadassah is a town located in the Jerusalem Corridor, located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Jerusalem, at an altitude of 755 meters above sea level, located on Route 375 west of Beitar Illit, about one kilometer west of the Green Line, adjacent to the Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin. In 2024 it had a population of 10,459.
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Getting to Tzur Hadassah
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 38 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 85 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 89 km
- Eilat → Tzur Hadassah241 km · quickest by road, 5h 28m · ₪105–140
- Amman → Tzur Hadassah84 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · JD5–6
- El Arish → Tzur Hadassah140 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · E£325–435
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No local-transport research exists yet for Tzur Hadassah
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 Tzur Hadassah. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHitchhiking (described below) can be difficult if you have a suitcase.
- Get inIf you prefer to hitchhike, take the 31 or 32 local buses to the trempiada (see below).
- Get inIf you don't have a car, the fastest, cheapest and easiest travel option is hitchhiking, or in Israeli English, "to catch a tremp".
- Get inThe main hitchhiking hub is in the southern exit from Jerusalem, a place called "Tzomet HaMinharot", or informally the trempiada.
- Get inFrom here you can get another tremp to a specific settlement, although many Israelis consider it unsafe to hitchhike here (in the past, it has been the site of kidnappings and shootings by Palestinians).
From Wikivoyage: Gush Etzion, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Next door to Tzur Hadassah
Tzur Hadassah is 13 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Beitar Illitcity in The West Bank3 km
- Husanmunicipality in Bethlehem Governorate3.9 km
- Wadi Fukinvillage council in Bethlehem Governorate1.5 km
- Bar Giorahuman settlement in Israel2.5 km
- Matatown in Israel3 km
- Mevo Beitarhuman settlement in Israel1.3 km