Central District, Israel · Asia
Gan Yavne is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Bet Rabban, 48km from Church of the Nativity.
Gan Yavne is in Central District, Israel, with about 24,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Bet Rabban, about 4 km away.
Gan-Yavne (Hebrew: גן יבנה) is a town in central Israel, located adjacent to the city of Ashdod. Gan Yavne was founded in 1931 and achieved local council status in 1950.
It lies east of the Tel Aviv–Ashkelon highway, and is bordered to the west by Ashdod, to the north by Gederot Regional Council, and to the east andRead more
south by Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 25,144. The population in Gan-Yavne is nearly entirely Jewish.
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Within an hour or so of Gan Yavne: Abu Hassan (Ali Karavan) (29 km), Old Jaffa (30 km), Yad Vashem (44 km), Church of the Nativity (48 km).
The nearest famous roads are Scorpions Ascent (Ma'ale Akrabim) and King's Highway.
Gan Yavne is in Central District, Israel, about 4 km from Bet Rabban.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
restaurant
A Jaffa hummus counter running since 1971, famous for masabacha made with whole chickpeas and extra tahini. It sells out and closes by mid-afternoon, and the queue starts well before that.
29 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
One of the oldest port cities in the world with 4,000 years of history, now an artists' quarter with galleries, restaurants, and views of Tel Aviv's skyline.
30 km · about 35 min drive
museum
Israel's official memorial to the Holocaust, with deeply moving exhibits and a striking modernist museum built into a mountainside.
44 km · about 50 min drive
cathedral
One of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world, built over the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
48 km · about 55 min drive
cathedral
Christianity's holiest site, built on the traditional locations of Jesus's crucifixion and burial.
49 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
A walled sacred city of one square kilometer containing holy sites for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam within four historic quarters.
50 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
The holiest site where Jews can pray, a 2,000-year-old limestone remnant of the Second Temple retaining wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.
50 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
The iconic gold-domed Islamic shrine on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, built in 691 CE over the sacred Foundation Stone.
50 km · about 60 min drive
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