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12 places
Attractions & sights · Elazar
Part of the water system Herod built to carry water to Jerusalem, on Route 60 just south of Elazar and minutes from Efrat. You wade through an underground tunnel with thigh-high water, so bring a torch, water shoes and dry clothes.
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Attractions & sights · Across the Gush
A counter-terror and security academy in the Gush Etzion industrial park that runs bookable visitor programmes: paintball, combat rappelling, krav maga, demonstrations and target shooting.
Attractions & sights · Tekoa
Israel's second-largest karst cave, beside Tekoa on the west bank of Nahal Tekoa, named after the 4th-century monk Chariton. Mapped passages total about 4 km on four levels, so it is for equipped, guided groups.
Attractions & sights · Tekoa
A family-run organic winery in Tekoa D on the edge of the Judean Desert, founded in 2010; visits and tastings by arrangement.
Attractions & sights · Bat Ayin
Remains of a Second Temple-period farm by the Bat Ayin access road, with a large rock-cut mikveh whose steps still show the partition between those going down and those coming up.
Attractions & sights · Rosh Tzurim
Culinary workshops on Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim (focaccia, Jerusalem bagels, pita to falafel, farm-to-pizza) by reservation, plus a coffee shop open Sunday to Thursday.
Attractions & sights · Bat Ayin
The forest and surviving bunker of Kibbutz Masu'ot Yitzhak, one of the four Gush Etzion communities destroyed in 1948; the rock-cut cave was an oil press and served as a shelter for the wounded.
Attractions & sights · Alon Shvut
Guided ATV and jeep tours of Gush Etzion, the Judean hills and the Judean Desert for individuals, families and groups.
Attractions & sights · Gush Etzion Junction
A 954 m hill above the Bracha Valley where the Russian Orthodox Church built a pilgrims' monastery in 1892; a key position in the 1948 battles for Gush Etzion, with mikvaot and burial caves on its slopes.
Attractions & sights · Tekoa
A centre for over 100 local artists in Tekoa with a gallery, studios, an art shop and a cafe; tours and workshops for groups.
Attractions & sights · Tekoa
One of Israel's first boutique wineries, carved into a hill above the Judean Desert; founded in the 1980s and restored in 2023, with grapes from the Kanub ridge.
Attractions & sights · Across the Gush
A boutique estate winery near Ibei HaNahal in the eastern Gush that ages its wine in an ancient cave and has a visitors' centre.
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