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Yad Vashem
Israel's official memorial to the Holocaust, with deeply moving exhibits and a striking modernist museum built into a mountainside.
43 km · about 50 min drive
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Kiryat Gat
Southern District, Israel · Asia
About Kiryat Gat
Kiryat Gat sits on the route: 5 minutes from Even Shemu’el, 43km from Church of the Nativity.
Kiryat Gat is in Southern District, Israel, with about 62,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Even Shemu’el, about 4 km away.
Kiryat Gat (Hebrew: קריית גת, lit. 'City of Gat') also spelled Qiryat Gat, is a city in the Southern District of Israel. It lies 56 km (35 miles) south of Tel Aviv, 43 km (27 mi) north of Beersheba, and 68 km (42 mi) west southwest of Jerusalem. In 2024 it had a population of 72,140. The city hosts one of the mostRead more
advanced semiconductor fabrication plants in the world, Intel's Fab 28 plant producing 7 nm process chips.
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What is there to see near Kiryat Gat?
Within an hour or so of Kiryat Gat: Yad Vashem (43 km), Church of the Nativity (43 km), Church of the Holy Sepulchre (48 km), Jerusalem Old City (48 km).
Are there any good drives near Kiryat Gat?
The nearest famous roads are Scorpions Ascent (Ma'ale Akrabim), King's Highway and Dana to Petra Trail.
Where is Kiryat Gat?
Kiryat Gat is in Southern District, Israel, about 4 km from Even Shemu’el.
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- Population
- 61,817
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Israel
- Region
- Southern District
- Timezone
- Asia/Jerusalem
- Coordinates
- 31.6100, 34.7642
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Church of the Nativity
One of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world, built over the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
43 km · about 50 min drive
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Christianity's holiest site, built on the traditional locations of Jesus's crucifixion and burial.
48 km · about 55 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.
48 km · about 55 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.
48 km · about 55 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.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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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.
49 km · about 55 min 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.
49 km · about 55 min drive
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