Moshav in southern Israel

Shafir

Shafir is a moshav in southern Israel.

Every way there

Eilat → Shafir
239 km · quickest by road, 5h 8m · ₪100–130
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Amman → Shafir
118 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · JD6–8
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El Arish → Shafir
109 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · E£300–400
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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 Shafir, 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 Shafir has

YScheduled flightsTel Aviv (TLV), 38 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Kiryat Gat, 10 km.

31.697°, 34.729°

Located in the Shephelah near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,074.

How locals move

Getting around Shafir the local way

Get aroundBy bus, taxi ("moneet" in Hebrew), or minibus ("moneet sherut").

From Wikivoyage: Ashdod, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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