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Zababdeh

Zababdeh or Zababida is a town in the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 15 kilometres southeast of Jenin and 2 kilometres from the Arab American University.

Zababdeh
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The place

Zababdeh or Zababida is a town in the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 15 kilometres southeast of Jenin and 2 kilometres from the Arab American University.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Zababdeh

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
    Arab American University

    The Arab American University or AAUP is the first private university in Palestine founded in 2000. AAUP's main campus is located near Talfit in the south of the Jenin Governorate.

    3 km · private university in Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Khirbet Kheibar

    Khirbet Kheibar or Tell Kheibar is an archaeological site located in the western outskirts of the Sanur Valley, West Bank. A fortified tell, it includes the remains of an ancient walled city that for some periods grew beyond the walls.

    5.7 km · archaeological site in the West Bank · 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 Zababdeh

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 58 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 78 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 97 km
  • Tel Aviv → Zababdeh
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · ₪29–38
  • Eilat → Zababdeh
    317 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · ₪320–690
  • Amman → Zababdeh
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · JD5–7
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Zababdeh

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe most logical way to enter would be to fly into Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, take a taxi or mini-bus to Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, from there at one of Arab bus stations take bus 18 to Ramallah (₪6.50, less than an hour), cross into Ramallah and take a shared taxi from the central bus station to Jenin (₪35, 1.5-2 h).
  • Get inYou then cross on foot and take a (shared) taxi or hitchhike the rest of the distance.

From Wikivoyage: Jenin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    229 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    313 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    439 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    673 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,039 km

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

Around it

Next door to Zababdeh

Zababdeh is 53 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Qabatiyacity in the State of Palestine4.8 km
  • Misilyahvillage council in Jenin Governorate3.3 km
  • Jalqamusvillage council in Jenin Governorate5.8 km
  • 'AqqabaPalestinian town4.6 km
  • Sir, Jeninvillage council in Jenin Governorate2.6 km
  • Umm at-Tutvillage council in Jenin Governorate5.6 km