Municipality type C in Bethlehem, State of Palestine
Nahalin
Nahalin, also spelled Nahaleen, is a Palestinian village located in the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine, to the southwest of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
The village was well known for beekeeping and tens of beehives still exist in Nahalin today. The village is also known locally for its almond and olive trees, vineyards, parsley and vegetables, namely onions and beans. The built-up area of Nahalin consists of roughly 730 dunams, 20 of which make up the old center of the village. The village had a population of 8,741 in 2017.
How locals move
Getting around Nahalin the local way
- 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.
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