Zekharia

Worth seeing in and around Zekharia

4 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
   Azekah

   Azekah was an ancient town in the Shephela guarding the upper reaches of the Valley of Elah, about 26 km northwest of Hebron. The current tell by that name, also known as Tel Azekah or Tell Zakariya, has been identified with the biblical Azekah, dating back to the Canaanite period.

   1.4 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Khirbet Qeiyafa

   Khirbet Qeiyafa, also known as Elah Fortress and in Hebrew as Horbat Qayafa, is the site of an ancient fortress city overlooking the Valley of Elah and dated to the first half of the 10th century BCE. The ruins of the fortress were uncovered in 2007, near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, 30 km from Jerusalem. It covers nearly 2.3 ha and is encircled by a 700-meter-long city wall constructed of field stones, some weighing up to eight tons.

   1.9 km · Archaeological site · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Tel Yarmuth

   Tel Yarmuth or Khirbet Yarmuk is an ancient Near East archaeological site in Israel located 25 kilometers southwest of Jerusalem and near modern Beit Shemesh. It is a large primarily single-period site and has been suggested as possibly being the city of Jarmuth, being only a tentative identification, as it is based solely on the similarity of the Hebrew name with the Arabic name and its areal location.

   2.8 km · archaeological site in Jerusalem District, Israel · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St. Stephen's Church, Beit Jimal

   The St. Stephen's Church is a church in Beit Jimal, a Catholic monastery run by Salesian monks near Beit Shemesh in present-day Israel.

   3.4 km · church in Beit Jimal, Israel · Wikipedia

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Getting to Zekharia

Airports

Ben Gurion (TLV), 34 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 99 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 103 km

• Eilat → Zekharia

  240 km · quickest by road, 5h 10m · ₪100–130
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• Amman → Zekharia

  98 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · JD5–7
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• El Arish → Zekharia

  127 km · quickest by road, 4h 3m · E£310–410
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