museum
Yad Vashem
Israel's official memorial to the Holocaust, with deeply moving exhibits and a striking modernist museum built into a mountainside.
23 km · about 25 min drive
Jerusalem, Israel · Asia
Zekharya works well as a base: 5 minutes from Li On, 25km from Church of the Nativity.
Zekharya is a town located in Jerusalem, Israel. With a population of 1,124, it is an important destination in Asia.
On a road trip, Zekharya sits in Israel, where you drive on the right. It's in the Asia/Jerusalem time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Zekharya to your route.
Zekharia (Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה, lit. 'Zechariah') is a moshav in central Israel. It sits on the ancient Palestinian village of Zakariyya (Arabic: زكريا), whose inhabitants were expelled in 1949.
Located near Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population ofRead more
1,392.
Settlement in the area dates back to the Iron Age. During the Roman era a town named Beit Zacharia was located on the hill, which according to legend was the burial place of the prophet Zechariah. By the Mamluk era, it had become a Muslim village, and was known by various names, including Zakariyya al-Battih, Kefr Zakaria, Az-Zakariyya or simply Zakariyya. Although the village had been allotted to the Arab state in the 1947 United Nations proposed partition plan, the area was occupied by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the remaining Arab population was expelled in 1950, after which a new Jewish moshav, now Hebraized as Zekharia, was founded on the site.
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Zekharya is located in Jerusalem, Israel, Asia. The coordinates are 31.7093 latitude, 34.9449 longitude.
Zekharya has a population of approximately 1,124 people, making it a town in Israel.
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museum
Israel's official memorial to the Holocaust, with deeply moving exhibits and a striking modernist museum built into a mountainside.
23 km · about 25 min drive
cathedral
One of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world, built over the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
25 km · about 30 min drive
cathedral
Christianity's holiest site, built on the traditional locations of Jesus's crucifixion and burial.
28 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
A walled sacred city of one square kilometer containing holy sites for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam within four historic quarters.
28 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
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.
28 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
The iconic gold-domed Islamic shrine on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, built in 691 CE over the sacred Foundation Stone.
29 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
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.
42 km · about 50 min drive
restaurant
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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