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Barkan
Israeli settlement in the West Bank

Barkan

Barkan is an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank, about 8 km west of the Palestinian city of Salfit, under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council.

Plan a trip to Barkan→From Eilat

In 2024 its population was 2,171.

How locals move

Getting around Barkan the local way

  • Get aroundHitchhiking (Tremp) Ariel is long and narrow (it follows the crest of a long mountain ridge), so it could be a long walk from one part to another.
  • Go nextHitch a ride, or take Palestinian licence-plated taxi, from Ariel Junction to Nablus.

From Wikivoyage: Ariel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2025-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: יעקב (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.