Bar Giora

• Get inHitchhiking (described below) can be difficult if you have a suitcase.
• Get inIf you prefer to hitchhike, take the 31 or 32 local buses to the trempiada (see below).
• Get inIf you don't have a car, the fastest, cheapest and easiest travel option is hitchhiking, or in Israeli English, "to catch a tremp".
• Get inThe main hitchhiking hub is in the southern exit from Jerusalem, a place called "Tzomet HaMinharot", or informally the trempiada.
• Get inFrom here you can get another tremp to a specific settlement, although many Israelis consider it unsafe to hitchhike here (in the past, it has been the site of kidnappings and shootings by Palestinians).
• Get inFrom Beit Shemesh, hitchhiking is easiest, but the 409 bus also runs several times a day.
• Get aroundThe only exception is Efrat, which is very long and narrow, so hitchhiking or taking an (infrequent) bus may be more effective.
• Get aroundHitchhiking (from within a settlement) is a safer and faster option.

From Wikivoyage: Gush Etzion, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-07.