Umm Salamuna
Umm Salamuna is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers south-west of Bethlehem.
Umm Salamuna is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers south-west of Bethlehem. The village is in the Bethlehem Governorate in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,188 in 2017. The primary healthcare is obtained in Beit Fajjar, where the Ministry of Health has classified the care facilities as level 3.
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Worth seeing in and around Umm Salamuna
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.
- 01Judaean Mountains
The Judaean Mountains, or Judaean Hills or the Hebron Hills is a mountain range in the West Bank of Palestine, and Israel where Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron and several other biblical sites are located. The mountains reach a height of 1,026 metres.
2.6 km · mountain range in Israel and the West Bank · Wikipedia - 02Gush Etzion Well's Aqueduct
The Biar Aqueduct, or Wadi el-Biyar Aqueduct, is an ancient aqueduct in the northern Hebron Hills, south of Jerusalem, that formed part of the city's historic water-supply system. Traditional attribution places its construction under Herod the Great, but radiocarbon dating of its plasters indicates a mid-first-century CE build with second-century renovations associated with Aelia Capitolina, although it is possible that the entire system dates exclusively to the second century.
2.6 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Umm Salamuna
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 49 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 79 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 86 km
- Tel Aviv → Umm Salamuna61 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · ₪28–37
- Eilat → Umm Salamuna233 km · quickest by road, 5h 24m · ₪95–125
- Amman → Umm Salamuna81 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · JD5–7
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Umm Salamuna
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 Umm Salamuna. 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 Umm Salamuna
Umm Salamuna is 15 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- EfratIsraeli settlement in the Gush Etzion area2.2 km
- ElazarIsraeli settlement in Gush Etzion3.1 km
- Beit Fajjarmunicipality in Bethlehem Governorate2.4 km
- Jurat ash-Sham'amunicipality type D in bl, State of Palestine700 m
- Marah Rabahmunicipality in Bethlehem Governorate maha erbah el chelel bi alex el s oureh2.2 km
- Shuyukh al-Arrubvillage council in Hebron Governorate3.6 km