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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.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Qiryat Ye‘arim
Jerusalem, Israel · Asia
About Qiryat Ye‘arim
Qiryat Ye‘arim works well as a base: 5 minutes from Shoresh, 12km from Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Qiryat Ye‘arim is in Jerusalem, Israel, with about 6,100 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Shoresh, about 4 km away.
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What is there to see near Qiryat Ye‘arim?
Within an hour or so of Qiryat Ye‘arim: Yad Vashem (8 km), Church of the Holy Sepulchre (12 km), Jerusalem Old City (13 km), Western Wall (Wailing Wall) (13 km).
Are there any good drives near Qiryat Ye‘arim?
The nearest famous roads are King's Highway, Scorpions Ascent (Ma'ale Akrabim) and Dana to Petra Trail.
Where is Qiryat Ye‘arim?
Qiryat Ye‘arim is in Jerusalem, Israel, about 4 km from Shoresh.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 6,128
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Israel
- Region
- Jerusalem
- Timezone
- Asia/Jerusalem
- Coordinates
- 31.8030, 35.1020
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Worth the detour from Qiryat Ye‘arim
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
12 km · about 25 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.
13 km · about 25 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.
13 km · about 25 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.
13 km · about 25 min 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.
15 km · about 30 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.
42 km · about 50 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.
43 km · about 50 min drive
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