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Yavné

Yavne is a city in the Central District of Israel.

Yavné
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The place

Yavne is a city in the Central District of Israel. In 2024 it had a population of 58,090.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Yavné

7 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
    Weizmann Institute of Science

    The Weizmann Institute of Science is a postgraduate university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It was established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded.

    7.6 km · research institute in Rehovot, Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Givat Washington

    Givat Washington, also known as Beit Raban is a religious youth village in central Israel. Located near Kvutzat Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council.

    7.3 km · youth village and an academic college in Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Machon Ayalon

    The Ayalon Institute was an underground ammunition factory, located on Kibbutz Hill in Rehovot, Israel, disguised as a kibbutz that ran a laundry service. The factory was established in 1945 and manufactured ammunition until 1948; today it is a museum and national historical site.

    8.1 km · historical site in Rehovot, Israel · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ness Ziona Stadium

    The Ness Ziona Stadium, is a municipal sports stadium in Ness Ziona, Israel. It was the home football stadium of Sektzia Nes Tziona until the 2019–20 season.

    5.3 km · football stadium in Ness Ziona, Israel · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Yeshurun Central Synagogue

    The Yeshurun Central Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Biluim Street, in Gedera, Israel. It was the first synagogue to be built in the town, completed during the time of the Biluim, forerunners of the kibbutz movement 1882 from the Russian Empire.

    8.5 km · The first Synagogue in Gedera, Israel · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Yavne-Yam

    Yavne-Yam or Minet Rubin is an archaeological site located on Israel's Southern Coastal Plain, about 15 km south of Tel Aviv. Built on eolianite hills next to a small promontory forming the sole anchorage able to provide shelter to seagoing vessels between Jaffa and the Sinai, Yavne-Yam is notable for its role as the port of ancient Yavne.

    5.8 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Yibna Bridge

    The Yibna Bridge or Nahr Rubin Bridge is a Mamluk arch bridge near Yibna, which crosses the Nahal Sorek. It was previously used by Route 410 to Rehovot, and was known as the Jumping Bridge due to a bump in the middle of the bridge which caused cars to jump if speeding.

    2.4 km · bridge in 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.

Go there

Getting to Yavné

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 20 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 119 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 120 km
Stations
Tel Nof Airbase, 9.7 km · Rishon LeZion – HaRishonim Railway Station, 9.8 km · Rehovot Railway Station, 7.5 km · Yavne East Railway Station, 2.7 km · Yavne West Railway Station, 900 m
  • Eilat → Yavné
    259 km · quickest by road, 5h 31m · ₪105–140
  • Amman → Yavné
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · JD6–8
  • El Arish → Yavné
    122 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · E£335–445
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Yavné

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 Yavné. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBy bus, taxi ("moneet" in Hebrew), or minibus ("moneet sherut").

From Wikivoyage: Ashdod, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    187 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    265 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    377 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    671 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,025 km

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

Around it

Next door to Yavné

Yavné is 22 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rishon LeZioncity in the Central District of Israel, south of Tel Aviv9.7 km
  • Rehovotcity in the Central District of Israel, south of Tel Aviv7.1 km
  • Ness ZionaCity in the Central District of Israel8.4 km
  • GederaIsraeli town in the southern part of the Shfela region8.8 km
  • Kiryat Ekronhuman settlement in Israel8.8 km
  • Yibnavillage in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine2.3 km