Nitzana Border Crossing

Nitzana Border Crossing
Carries	Containers
Crosses	Border between Egypt and Israel
Locale	Abu Ujaylah, Egypt Nitzana, Israel
Official name	Nitzana Border Crossing מעבר ניצנה معبر نيتسانا
Maintained by	Arab Republic of Egypt Israel Airports Authority
Characteristics
Total length	200 metres (Israeli side)
Width	45 metres (Israeli side)
History
Opened	1982
Statistics
Daily traffic	16 vehicles in 2005
Toll	₪151.00 (Outbound Israel)

The Nitzana Border Crossing (Arabic: معبر نيتسانا‎‎, Hebrew: מעבר ניצנה‎) is an international border crossing between El Ouga and Nitzana, Israel. Opened in 1982, the crossing used to handle pedestrians as well as private cars but most of the crossing was being done via the Taba Border Crossing in Eilat and the Rafah Border Crossing in Rafah that the Israelis decided to shut down the crossing to tourists. There is talk of possibly reopening the crossing to tourists now that the Rafah crossing is no longer in Israeli control.

Today the terminal handles only commercial trade between the two nations. The terminal is open from Sunday to Thursday, 8:00 to 17:00. It is closed from Friday to Saturday as well as Jewish and Islamic holidays.

In February 2013, the crossing was named after Aryeh Eliav, who among other things founded the nearby Nitzana Youth Village.

Egyptian terminal

The Egyptian terminal is accessible via the Ismaïlia-Abu Ujaylah highway in Shamal Sina' (North Sinai).

Israeli terminal

Transportation to and from the terminal

The Israeli border terminal can be reached from within Israel via Metropoline bus number 44 from Beersheba's central bus station.

External links

Official

• Nitzana Border Terminal info