--- title: "Zababdeh – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Zababdeh, Israel: Zababdeh or Zababida is a town in the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 15 kilometres southeast of Jenin and 2…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zababdeh" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zababdeh.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Zababdeh_Community_Center.jpg" --- Town in the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank · Israel # 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](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Zababdeh_Community_Center.jpg) Zababdeh · Wikimedia Commons 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zababdeh), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_American_University) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirbet_Kheibar) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tel-aviv-to-zababdeh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=Zababdeh) - Eilat → Zababdeh 317 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · ₪320–690 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eilat-to-zababdeh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eilat&to=Zababdeh) - Amman → Zababdeh 76 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · JD5–7 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-zababdeh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=Zababdeh) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Zababdeh) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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 in The 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 in You then cross on foot and take a (shared) taxi or hitchhike the rest of the distance. From [Wikivoyage: Jenin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 229 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 313 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 439 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 673 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 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](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Czababdeh&title=Zababdeh&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fzababdeh), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Zababdeh Zababdeh is 53 km from [Irbid](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/irbid), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Qabatiya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/qabatiya) city in the State of Palestine 4.8 km - [Misilyah](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/misilyah) village council in Jenin Governorate 3.3 km - [Jalqamus](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jalqamus) village council in Jenin Governorate 5.8 km - ['Aqqaba](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aqqaba) Palestinian town 4.6 km - [Sir, Jenin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sir-jenin) village council in Jenin Governorate 2.6 km - [Umm at-Tut](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/umm-at-tut) village council in Jenin Governorate 5.6 km [The place page for Zababdeh](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/zababdeh) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Israel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IL) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zababdeh, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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