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# Elkana

Elkana or Elqana is an Israeli settlement and local council in the north-western Samarian hills in the West Bank, located 3.1 km to the east of the Green Line and the city of Rosh HaAyin.

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## Every way there

- Eilat → Elkana 284 km · quickest by air, 3h 29m · ₪330–500 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eilat-to-elkana) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eilat&to=Elkana)
- Amman → Elkana 87 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · JD5–7 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-elkana) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=Elkana)
- El Arish → Elkana 161 km · quickest by road, 4h 46m · E£375–500 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/el-arish-to-elkana) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=El+Arish&to=Elkana)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Elkana, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Elkana has

- Y Scheduled flights Tel Aviv (TLV), 18 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Rosh Ha‘Ayin, 8 km.

32.110°, 35.034°

It was founded in 1977 by a group from Gush Emunim of religious and non-religious Jews, and by July 2020 it had a population of 3858.

How locals move

## Getting around Elkana the local way

- Get around Hitchhiking (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 next Hitch a ride, or take Palestinian licence-plated taxi, from Ariel Junction to Nablus.

From [Wikivoyage: Ariel](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ariel), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2025-08.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkana), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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