Yanun
Yanun is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) southeast of Nablus, and 3 miles north of Aqraba.
Yanun is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) southeast of Nablus, and 3 miles north of Aqraba. It lies within Area C, under total Israeli control, of the West Bank. It is divided into two sites, upper and lower Yanun. Upper or northern Yanin is considered illegal by the Israeli authorities, and development is prohibited there.
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Worth seeing in and around Yanun
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.
- 01Khirbet el Urma
Khirbet el-'Ormeh, in Hebrew Horvat Ormah, is an archaeological site located in the West Bank, around ten kilometers southeast of the Palestinian city of Nablus. The site contains the remains of a Hasmonean-Herodian fortress consisting of a fortification wall, rectangular towers constructed in the Hellenistic style, and a series of large cisterns for storing rainwater.
3.2 km · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia - 02Khirbet Tana et-Tahta
Khirbet Tana et-Tahta is a village and archeological site located in the West Bank. It lies east of Beit Furik, and is home to approximately 250 villagers.
3.8 km · village and archeological site located in the West Bank · Wikipedia
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Getting to Yanun
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 47 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 63 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 76 km
- Tel Aviv → Yanun55 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · ₪21–28
- Eilat → Yanun290 km · quickest by road, 6h 41m · ₪125–165
- Amman → Yanun59 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · JD4.5–6
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No local-transport research exists yet for Yanun
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 Yanun. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Ben Gurion it is cheapest to take a "sherut" (shared taxi) to the bus station on Nablus Road by Damascus Gate, and then follow the directions above to Nablus.
- Go nextShared minibus taxis (sherut/servees) leaving Nablus tend to congregate around the center of town and along the two-sided Al-Gazalah (Al-Hadadeen) Street going southeast out of town.
- Go nextTo get there by hitchhiking, take a sherut to Tubas (₪7.50) and from there hitchhike east through Tayasir and Aqabah to the highway #578 or #90, and then north past the Israeli checkpoint.
From Wikivoyage: Nablus, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Next door to Yanun
Yanun is 42 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- AqrabaTown in Nablus Governorate, West Bank, Palestine2.4 km
- Beit Furiktown in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine3.9 km