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'''Jerusalem''' is a the largest city in Israel and the [[Middle East]], capital of the state since its establishment in 1948. Jerusalem's status is under dispute between [[Israel]] and the Palestinians, both claiming it . The Palestinians have claims to the city including a claim to be their capital city.

Be aware that Jerusalem is quite diffferent different from Tel Aviv, there is a lot of religious communities in the city. Some inhabitants In '''religious neighborhoods''', it can be perceived as offensive not to dress modestly, and areas are very can attract unwelcomed attention. However, in the city center and old city (not inside the religious and "modesty" sites themselves, obviously) there is appreciated no such problem.You can hitch hike in the nighbourhods, just find deserted stations and sometimes somewhat violently enforcedtry. Best not to wear mini skirts most of the city are walkable and other outfits the buses are cheap. Make plastic card "Rav Kav', otherwise you would wear at can't pay. It's free and possible to make in the beach in Tel Aviv.CBS and another spots

=== East [Moriya:] Jerusalem has at least 6-7 roads to get out,to different directions. It's changes often by the [[Dead Sea]]massive constractions but in general, [[Amman]] ([[Jordan]]) ===choose your next destination and ask local where the best spot to hitch out. the following is list of spots based on the direction:

==MAIN Junction to get out: == From East Jerusalem ===="Hayeziaa Me'A'ir"- The enternace of the city, called as well Ginot Sacharov. ([https://goo.gl/maps/i8hDtLdz8tu Google street view]) 1 road, the huge Trempiyada that close to the CBS. it's the road to Tel Aviv, Haifa and all Gush Dan, and the way to the states highways- 2, 6.. If you come from city center, you walk through tram lines to the ugly bridge, and down the bridge you continue straight.you will see 2 crossroads and on your right will be to petrols stations- yellow one and one call Sonol. Keep staright. you will see huge place to stand, bus statins and often tons of people that hitch hike too. find your spot and stand. Most likely you will see other hitchhikers standing there too. If you get bored or want to burn some time, just behind you there is an old Arab village (Lifta), which was deserted in 1948. Go down the stairs and find your way to the local spring. Although basicly from this spot people go to all the country, not many people stop, and you may stuck inside all the traffic jams. So if you want easyer, beautyer and often shorter way to south or north, use another way.

Take service taxi ("sheirut") 36 from Damascus Gate Hitch hike to Tel Aviv on road 443: You can stand at French Hill just in the direction other side of [[Abu Dis]], a ride the tram of 7 NIS Givat Hamivtar. This is not the best spot to hitch towards Tel Aviv - use it only. Get off in Maale Adumin North junction and continue hitchhiking east. If if you take this ride you get directly to road #1hitched here from the Dead Sea, northern Israel or from which the West bank, and you need wish to continue hitchhiking east to Tel Aviv. On the other side of the big intersection there is a smaller bus stop. Cars that pass here might be going into Jerusalem, or towards Tel Aviv through highway 1 or highway 443, so a sign here can be a big help. There are no good places to stop on highway 1 except the Dead Sea Hemed station and JordanLatrun intersection. It’s better to wait for a direct ride. If you can get a ride part of the way on highway 443, to Modiin for example, that is much better, because there are bus stops in almost every intersection on that road.

==== From West Jerusalem ==To the north, south and Dead sea: ==

Take bus 25Jerusalem locate, geographicly in the excat center of Israel, 4 or 4A which explaines why to Har Ha'tsofim (French Hill). You can hitchhike from the bus stop across the street from the entrance hitch hike to nirth and south is the Mt. Scopus Campus of Hebrew Universitysame spot. The place is usually crowded with hitchhikersfor years, and drivers stop often. Most likely they will go only part of the best way, was through the Trempiyada in which case you should ask to get off in the entry junction to their settlementFrench hill, but roads changed and continue hitchhiking from people barely stop there nowdays .(2018) Currently spot is the bus station.:[[User:Halt,_Stop!_Reudnitz_kommt.|Craig]] found it easy to get a lift even from inside JerusalemMaa'le Adumim that close to the Hebrew Uni. The bus stop mentioned above works perfect. Since recently you can get there taking From city center- take the Tram tram to Ammunition Hill, ''or'' you hitchhike from in front the Damascus gate (sounds strange, but worked numerous times: 10 mins, 5 mins). Get down, cross the road to the right, you can see huge white stutue on your left. Keep it on your left. and start walk, You will walk like 15 minutes. Than you will see station that have many buses that stop. Check if it's written that there is a bus that go to Kfar Adumim. if the answer iis yes- than you are in the right staation. Take a lift to Kfar Adumim (or further) you will pass Maale Adumim, and Mishor Adumim. when you get down, you will see that you are in road 1#. all the lifts good for you, try to get to Bet Haarava junction, where road 1 meets highway 90, which can take you north towards Beit She'an, Tiberias and generally northern Israel (serving also Allenby border crossing and Sheikh Hussein border crossing to Amman) and south towards the Dead Sea and Eilat.So if you need to get to the Dead Sea and your ride goes to northern Israel (Beit She'an, Tiberias etc.) or vice versa, get off at the last junction before Beit HaArava - at Almog junction. Almog junction functions as a refreshment stop, so kiosks, mini-market and (free) toilets are available here, so that's the best way to hitch another ride. Beware! this is a desert area, so being near a refreshment stop helps.

=== South towards [[Eilat]]To the west bank- north area: Binyamin and Samaria sttelments, [[Aqaba]] ([[Jordan]]), [[Taba]] ([[Egypt]]) =Nablus and cet: ==

Follow Check the direction section of [[west bank]] for more detalis, but anyways, from Jerusalem: French Hill used to be the best spots, but it's changed (2018). Nowdays the Trempiyada is in Hizma Junction. take the tram to Sayert Duchifat (almost last station), get down and take the crossroad to your right. there is a station, not so good spot but for lazy people you can hitch hike there insted of walk 20 minutes down in the road to Hizma junction. every lift is good to Hizma Junction, and sometime you will get lift straight to your destination. Hizma Junction is a soldiers checkpoint, you will see many people standing there. Sign can help and watch the que.The people that stop will be 90% of the time religius setllers, so if you want to go to Rammalla cheeck where excatly you need to get down to coninue, and be aware that people will not like the idea you go there, and can't give you ride straight to there, due the politics issues. You can hitch from the same place towards Ramallah (and from there you can reach Nablus and other Palestinian cities). Be advised that if you’re standing in this stop with a sign that says “Ramallah” on it, it's quite possible people are going to look at you like you’re crazy, and might try to convince you not to go there, that it’s dangerous, etc. It's almost secret but you can even hitch hike to Netania, Tel Aviv, Haifa from this stop if you heading to Samaria (through 60 road, 5, 6) but it longer and you will need many lifts. Rides from here are available to the Ramallah area ([[Dead SeaRamallah]], but continue south on [[Highway 90 (Israel)|Highway 90Ofra]] until its end, etc. From there you can continue east ) As well as further in, towards [[JordanNablus]], via "Tapuach Junction" ([[Ariel]], [[Salfit]], or south towards [[EgyptBuddya]]etc.)The buses to this area are really cheap (sometime 3 shekels!) so check where you need exactly to go and your time- maybe bus is better..

== To the west bank- south- Gush Ezyon, Hebron, Beer Sheva- == Same rules about the [[Filewest bank]] section. Take bus to Gilo (71, 31, 30..) get down in Afarsemon street. cross to the left, you will see huge road, on the left there is Trempiyada. If you need to Go to Hebron, ask people where exactly to stand. If you not sure where to get down ask the driver, where is the Gush Ezyon's Trempiyada. To Tekoa (Gush Ezyon) :Hitching_out_of_Jerusalemtake the bus to Har Homa (Homat Shmuel) 74, 75.JPG|thumb|right|220px|Orthodox Jews hitching out Get down in Shmuel Meir-Kvish 378. It's the same way to Bet Lechem, but Israelies car not aloud to go there, and arabs not aloud to do the way around.A bus ride to Bethlehem only costs 8 NIS, consider using the bus. Bus #231 or #234 can be taken from the bus terminal in front of Damscus gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. You can hitch a ride to [[Gush Etzion Junction]]and continue from there to most of the villages in Gush Etzion or on to Hebron and Kiryat Arba.Though, to get to the Hebron or Kiryat Arba, there is a bus #381 which costs just 8.1 NIS.

=== West towards :[[Tel AvivUser:Vulla|Vulla]] ===Take a bus or tram You can consider to the central bus station in walk instead of HH. Jerusalem (many bus lines go there). From the main entrance, head to the right (when looking away from the building)Bethlem is just 8 km. Go on I've done it in less than 2 hours walking further on Jaffa road, slow and take a right before the tram bridge, and continue till you get to the main junction where the "Begin" highway splits off to the right. Continue straight past this junction, and on your right (after the petrol station) you will see a bus stop, the best spot to hitchhike. Most likely you will see other hitchhikers standing there too. If you get bored or want to burn some my time, just behind you there is an ancient Palestinian village (Lifta), which was deserted in 1948. Go down the stairs and find your way to the local spring. In case it's too crowded you might be better off going a bit back up the street to the [[petrol station hitchhiking|petrol stations]] and hitch there. Also, Israeli hitchhikers seem to have an aversion against [[signs]], so if you're not local using a sign could work out in your advantage. There is also a [[petrol station hitchhiking|petrol station]] on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway at Shaar Hagai (שער הגיא‎) [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=gas+station&hl=en&cd=10&ei=6SqMS7XXIYivOJe28LcG&sig2=rVVbYMtdQ5gwWRR4lSrEAA&sll=31.799391,35.108185&sspn=0.250939,0.376282&ie=UTF8&The view=map&cid=10709258174763436664&ved=0CBIQpQY&hq=gas+station&hnear=&ll=31.88572,35.024414&spn=0.501407,0.752563&z=10&iwloc=A Google map link] This might be useful if a ride is not going all the way to Tel Aviv as there are very few spots to stop on the highway between the two cities. === North towards [[Tiberias]], [[Golan Heights]] === Follow the same directions as for Amman and the Dead Sea, best but continue north on highway 90 from the Beit HaArava Junction until if you reach the Tsemach Junciton at the bottom of the Kinneret. From there, arrive walking you can either hitchhike will able to [[Tiberias]] by going westwards on Road 90, or use see the [[trempiyada]] up to the Golan. People either drive up to Road 92 or Road 98 from there. Road 98 goes right up to the Golan, and Road 92 runs along the west coast of the Kinneret from where you can pick up Roads 789 or 87 big wall which it separetes Israel to the Golan. Highway 789 connects to Road 98 from where you can chose to either continue north or head south. Road 87 also connects to 98, but a bit later, and it also turns west over the Kinneret or east through the centre of the Golan until it picks up 98 at its end. [[File:Israel-erga hitching out of jerusalem.jpg|thumb|250|right|[[User:Erga|Erga]] modestly hitching out of Jerusalem]] === To [[Ramallah]], [[Samaria]] ([[West Bank]]) === Take a city bus (25, 4, or 4a) to the [[Har Ha'tzofim Junction]] and stand there. Rides from here are available You have to take the Ramallah area ([[Ramallah]]entrance for tourists, [[Ofra]], etc.) As well as further in, towards [[Nablus]], via "Tapuach Junction" ([[Ariel]], [[Salfit]], [[Buddya]] etc.) However, due to the lack of rides to this area, it is probably best to take a service taxi (very cheap) to this area from Damascus gate in Jerusalem. === To [[Bethlehem]]fast, [[Judea]] ([[West Bank]]) === Take the #31 bus to Giloh (you'll have to ask few people how to get to the ''[[trempiyada]]''. From pass there you can hitch rides to [[Bethlehem]] and [[Gush Etzion]] areas, ([[Efrat]], [[Bethlehem]], [[Alon Shvut]]), etc, as well as further south, to the [[Hebron]] area of [[Hebron]], [[Kiryat Arba]], [[Tarqumia]], [[Yatta]], etc. To get to the latter area, however, it is better to hitch a ridge to [[Gush Etzion Junction]], and try from thereThe palestinian pass by another gate.From the Palestinan bus terminal in front of Damascuus Gate Above all you can get a bus straight to [[Bethlehem]] and [[Beit Jala]]. It runs every 30 mins and takes a little more to Bethlehem.:[[User:Halt,_Stop!_Reudnitz_kommt.|Craig]] got a lift from in front the Damascus gate around 8pm (20 mins). Go to the junction before the cars go down the tunnel. there is enough space to stop. Sometimes people cannot cross will see the checkpoint wall and will drop you off. Try to sneak by read the tough pedestrian checkpoint and flag down cars in front different stories of the car crossing. Saves time and nerves =) == Sleep == === Free hospitality ===In projects such as [http://www.bewelcome.org BeWelcome] palestinian during the occupation and [http://www.couchsurfing.com CouchSurfing] you can find will see many Jerusalemic members who will host you for a night or two in their homes... === Hostels and cheap accommodation ===As a rule of thumb, the Western part of grafitti on the city is much (much!) more expensive than the Eastern partwall, especially when it comes to hostels. In the old city and around Damascus gate you can find a dorm bed for as little as 20 NIS (4 Euro) for a night. Check [http://www.wikivoyage.org Wikivoyage] for more details. === Camping ===You will find some camping places just at very touristic spots as the Dead Sea or the Sea of Galilaethem were made by Bansky. But you wonBansky't get a problem s graffitti are spread around Jerusalem but if you set up your tent just somewhere in go to the wood. Just make sure that you don't do it on private property, nearby center the sea or fluent water (it is supposed annoyng) taxies will take you to a tour to be forbidden) and in natural reservessee Bansky's graffiti. [[trash:Jerusalem]]{{IsIn|Israel}} [[he: ירושלים]]