Traveling Around Palestine: Many of the Excellence Center’s international volunteers, interns, and Arabic students wish to travel around Palestine and visit different cities. Once you enter Palestine,  you can easily travel around. Additionally, upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, you get a 3-month visa three-month visa. This visa allows you to travel to Palestine and Israel. So, you do not need to apply for a separate visa to enter Palestine.

Travel Between Hebron and Jerusalem

There are a lot of shared taxis from Hebron to Jerusalem. It takes around one hour to travel the 30 km to Hebron. Many internationals spend weekends in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Akko, Yafo, and other cities. As an international, you can easily travel. You just need to have your passport with you.

Israeli Checkpoints

There are Israeli checkpoints that separate Palestine and Israel. At the entrance of each city, there is an Israeli checkpoint. As an international, you can cross these checkpoints anytime you want without any problems.

Bethlehem to Hebron

Bethlehem is only around 20 km from Hebron and it takes about 40 minutes to arrive there. Many internationals like to go to Bethlehem to visit the Church of the Nativity and spend time in the Old City.

Go to Ramallah from Hebron

It takes about an hour and a half to go to Ramallah from Hebron via a shared taxi. Taxis begin running from early morning to around nine o’clock in the evening

Travel to the Dead Sea

The Dead Sea is only one and a half hours from Hebron. You can travel to Jericho via shared taxi and then take another taxi to the Dead Sea, which takes about 10 to 15 minutes from Jericho.

How to Travel to the North of the West Bank?

Traveling to the northern West Bank from Hebron is also possible. If you want to visit Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, etc., you must first travel to Ramallah. Then, from the Ramallah bus station, you can go wherever you want, generally taking around two to four hours of travel.

Former Participant Experience Travel Around Palestine

Patrick Magge from Ireland, who participated in the Volunteer in Palestine program, commented: “During the two months I was here, I could use the Friday and another day off I had from volunteering at the Center to explore the beautiful country that is Palestine.

From lying by the Mediterranean Sea at Jaffa to climbing the hills of Nablus to exploring the Old City of Jerusalem, I was always doing something in Palestine.

Traveling around Palestine was a great joy during my stay here, as Palestine is a place full of history and beautiful things to see and do. Even sitting in the transport as I moved across the country was a pleasure, just to be able to sit and look out at the gorgeous scenery.”

Trips Around Hebron, Palestine

Additionally, the Center organizes trips to various historical, cultural, business, governmental (and non-governmental) venues around Hebron. As international participants in the Excellence Center’s programs, you have plenty of destinations to travel to.

Ines Silmi from the Netherlands, who participated with De Grefte in the Volunteer in Palestine program, remarked, “In my free time, we had many options to travel. While at the Center, my boyfriend and I traveled to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, the Dead Sea, Tiberius, and Ramallah.

Sometimes we traveled with other volunteers or my host brother. The program is flexible, and the staff is happy to help you plan trips. The center also organizes trips to, for example, refugee camps, small villages, and other cities. Do not miss those as they are very interesting and get you to places you wouldn’t be able to visit without locals”.

In Conclusion

Traveling around Palestine and Israel is quite safe and not very expensive. Palestine is a small country, and it does not take long to travel from one city to another. Additionally, it is very interesting to see how each city in Palestine differs from the others in terms of culture, diversity, climate, and nature.

We highly recommend that our international volunteers, interns, and students travel around Palestine and Israel to explore and discover the land and see the differences in both.

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