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Old Jaffa
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.
20 km · about 25 min drive
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Kfar Saba
Central District, Israel · Asia
About Kfar Saba
Kfar Saba is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Sde H̱emed, 36km from Caesarea Maritima.
Kfar Saba is in Central District, Israel, with about 110,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Sde H̱emed, about 4 km away.
Kfar Saba [kfaʁˈsaba] (Hebrew: כְּפַר סַבָּא, lit. 'Grandfather's Village'), officially Kfar Sava [kfaʁ saˈva], is a city in the Sharon region, of the Central District of Israel. In 2024 it had a population of 99,410, making it the 16th-largest city in Israel. The population of Kfar Saba is nearly entirely Jewish. TheRead more
Jewish moshav of Kfar Saba was established in 1898. During World War I, the town took in about a thousand Jewish refugees of the Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation.
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What is there to see near Kfar Saba?
Within an hour or so of Kfar Saba: Old Jaffa (20 km), Abu Hassan (Ali Karavan) (20 km), Caesarea Maritima (36 km), Yad Vashem (51 km).
Are there any good drives near Kfar Saba?
The nearest famous roads are King's Highway and Scorpions Ascent (Ma'ale Akrabim).
Where is Kfar Saba?
Kfar Saba is in Central District, Israel, about 4 km from Sde H̱emed.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 110,456
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Israel
- Region
- Central District
- Timezone
- Asia/Jerusalem
- Coordinates
- 32.1750, 34.9069
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Worth the detour from Kfar Saba
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Abu Hassan (Ali Karavan)
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.
20 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
Caesarea Maritima
A spectacular Roman-era port city with a grand amphitheater, aqueducts, and crusader fortifications on the Mediterranean coast.
36 km · about 40 min drive
museum
Yad Vashem
Israel's official memorial to the Holocaust, with deeply moving exhibits and a striking modernist museum built into a mountainside.
51 km · about 60 min drive
cathedral
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Christianity's holiest site, built on the traditional locations of Jesus's crucifixion and burial.
54 km · about 60 min drive
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Jerusalem Old City
A walled sacred city of one square kilometer containing holy sites for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam within four historic quarters.
54 km · about 60 min drive
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Western Wall (Wailing Wall)
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.
54 km · about 60 min drive
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Dome of the Rock
The iconic gold-domed Islamic shrine on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, built in 691 CE over the sacred Foundation Stone.
54 km · about 60 min drive
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