ancient ruins
Caesarea Maritima
A spectacular Roman-era port city with a grand amphitheater, aqueducts, and crusader fortifications on the Mediterranean coast.
19 km · about 20 min drive
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Netanya
Central District, Israel · Asia
About Netanya
Netanya is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Nordiyya, 19km from Caesarea Maritima.
Netanya is in Central District, Israel, with about 230,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Nordiyya, about 4 km away.
Netanya (Hebrew: נְתַנְיָה, IPA: [netanˈja]), or Natanya (IPA: [naˈtanja]), is a city in the Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is 30 kilometres (20 mi) north of Tel Aviv, and 56 km (35 mi) south of Haifa, between the Poleg stream and the Wingate Institute in the southRead more
and the Avihayil stream in the north. The 14 km (8+1⁄2 mi) of beaches have made the city a popular tourist resort.
Founded in 1929 by deed of a coastal land purchase in the Arab village of Umm Khalid, Netanya was named in honor of Nathan Straus, a prominent Jewish American merchant and philanthropist in the early 20th century, who was the co-owner of the Macy's department store chain. In 1948, the remaining land of Umm Khalid was deserted by its inhabitants during the Arab-Israeli 1948 war, after which Netanya started further expanding eastwards.
In the 1990s, the city absorbed a large amount of immigrants from the former Soviet Union as well as from Ethiopia. As a result, 1 out of 4 inhabitants speaks Russian and the city's Ethiopian community is the largest in Israel, numbering over 12,000 citizens.
In 2024, Netanya had a population of 234,813, ranking it as the 7th-largest city in Israel by population. An additional 150,000 people live in the local and regional councils within ten kilometres (six miles) of Netanya, which serves as a regional center for them.
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What is there to see near Netanya?
Within an hour or so of Netanya: Caesarea Maritima (19 km), Old Jaffa (33 km), Abu Hassan (Ali Karavan) (33 km).
Where is Netanya?
Netanya is in Central District, Israel, about 4 km from Nordiyya.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 228,204
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Israel
- Region
- Central District
- Timezone
- Asia/Jerusalem
- Coordinates
- 32.3329, 34.8599
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Worth the detour from Netanya
3 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
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.
33 km · about 40 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.
33 km · about 40 min drive
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