Efrat & Gush Etzion
Rural religious community in the western Gush, founded in 1989, with a Hasidic-leaning feel, organic farming and the arts. NBN lists it among the Gush communities with many English-speaking olim.
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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 · 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.
Serves all of Efrat & Gush Etzion
Parks & playgrounds · Bat Ayin
A spring at Bat Ayin whose water runs out of an ancient tunnel into a square pool about 2 m deep, with old terraces and a Second Temple-period burial cave nearby.
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Parks & playgrounds · Bat Ayin
A spring in the Livne stream below Bat Ayin, with clear water in a small pool and a deeper concrete pool (about 2.5 m) under big shade trees. The last stretch is a walk down a green-marked trail.
Parks & playgrounds · Bat Ayin
A spring pool about 1.5 m deep in Wadi Sajma ("Garden of Eden valley") on the way to Bat Ayin, with shade and picnic tables; Dubek's Pool is a 200 m walk further down.
Guesthouses & zimmers · Bat Ayin
Three boutique cabins at the edge of Bat Ayin B, one for a couple with up to two children and two for couples only.
Bat Ayin B
Guesthouses & zimmers · Bat Ayin
A large couples' tzimmer with a jacuzzi and two balconies in Bat Ayin B.
1 Tzoref St, Bat Ayin
Guesthouses & zimmers · Bat Ayin
A B&B in a 30-year-old family orchard on the hill at Bat Ayin, looking towards Jerusalem.
Bat Ayin
Guesthouses & zimmers · Bat Ayin
A couples' room above Wadi Livne in Bat Ayin, facing a pine forest and a deep canyon.
Bat Ayin
Guesthouses & zimmers · Bat Ayin
Three self-contained lodges in the centre of Bat Ayin, including a family lodge with three and a half bedrooms, near springs and walking trails.
Bat Ayin (Alef)