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 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.
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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.
- 01Arab 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 - 02Khirbet 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
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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 → Zababdeh61 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · ₪29–38
- Eilat → Zababdeh317 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · ₪320–690
- Amman → Zababdeh76 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · JD5–7
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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.
- 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.
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Zababdeh is 53 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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