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Illit Transport Ltd. is an Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i bus company serving Beitar Illit.

According to its official website, Illit was founded in 2005, winning its first tender
Request for tender
A request for tender, commonly abbreviated to RFT, is a formal, structured invitation to suppliers for the supply of products or services. In the public sector, such a process may be required and determined in detail by law to ensure that such competition for the use of public money is open, fair...

 to begin operations in 2006. It replaced 'Betar Tours', which had provided bus service to the city previously.

The company owns 80 buses, running 5 intracity lines including 3 lines for school children, 11 lines to Jerusalem, one to Beit Shemesh and one to Bnei Brak.

The lines serve an almost exclusively Haredi population. As such, all Illit lines are Mehadrin
Mehadrin bus lines
Mehadrin bus lines are special bus lines in Israel which run in and between major Haredi population centers. Mehadrin lines are generally cheaper and provide a faster service between cities than other lines...

, observing gender-separation.

Bus lines

LineRouteVia
1 Ryitpart Blvd. - Ryitpart Blvd. Circle route
2 Kedushat Levi St. - Kedushat Levi St. Circle route
3 Knesset Mordekhay - HaRav Kanig
4 Knesset Yehezkel - Baba Sali
5 Kedushat Levi St. - Kedushat Levi St. Circle Route
198 Beitar Illit - Beit Shemesh Route 375
199 Beitar Illit - Bnei Brak Route 375, Route 3855, Beit Shemesh Railway Station
221 Beitar Illit - Jerusalem (Ramot
Ramot
Ramot , also known as Ramot Alon , is a large housing development in northwestern Jerusalem. Because part of Ramot lies north of the Green Line in East Jerusalem, the international community considers Ramot an Israeli settlement that is illegal under international law. Israel disputes this and...

)
Begin Expressway
222 Beitar Illit - Jerusalem (Ramat Shlomo
Ramat Shlomo
Ramat Shlomo Heights) is a large Jewish housing development in northern East Jerusalem. The population, mostly ultra-Orthodox, is 18,000-20,000....

)
Begin Expressway
224 Beitar Illit - Jerusalem (Sanhedria Murhevet
Sanhedria Murhevet
Sanhedria Murhevet is a Haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel. Its name translates as "expanded Sanhedria"....

)
Begin Expressway, Mattersdorf
Kiryat Mattersdorf
Kiryat Mattersdorf is a Haredi neighborbood in Jerusalem, Israel. It is located on the northern edge of the mountain plateau on which central Jerusalem lies. It is named after Mattersburg , a town in Austria with a long Jewish history. It borders Unsdorf and Romema...

, Kiryat Belz
290 Beitar Illit, Geva Alef (Divrei Hayyim, Kanig, Zvehil) -
Jerusalem (Shmuel HaNavi
Shmuel HaNavi (neighborhood)
Shmuel HaNavi is a neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel. It is located in the north of the city bordering Ramat Eshkol, Maalot Dafna and Sanhedria....

, Giv'at HaTahmoshet)
Begin Expressway, Yirmiyahu St., Bar Ilan St.
291 Beitar Illit, Geva Alef (Nadvorna, Agarot Moshe, Oyerbach, Ben Zakai, Hazon Ish) -
Jerusalem (Shmuel HaNavi, Giv'at HaTahmoshet)
Begin Expressway, Yirmiyahu St., Bar Ilan St.
292 Beitar Illit, Geva Bet (Ryitpart, Kedushat Levi, Mimazarich)) -
Jerusalem (Shmuel HaNavi, Giv'at HaTahmoshet)
Begin Expressway, Yirmiyahu St., Bar Ilan St.
293 Beitar Illit, Geva Bet (Knesst Yehezkel, Yismah Yisrael, Pahad Yitshak) -
Jerusalem (Shmuel HaNavi, Giv'at HaTahmoshet)
Begin Expressway, Yirmiyahu St., Bar Ilan St.
295 Beitar Illit - Jerusalem (Har Nof
Har Nof
Har Nof is a neighborhood on a hillside on the western boundary of Jerusalem, Israel, with a population of 20,000 residents, primarily Orthodox Jews.-History:...

)
Golumb St., Bayit VeGan
Bayit Vegan
Bayit VeGan is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, Israel, with a mostly charedi religious population. Bayit VeGan is located to the east of Mount Herzl and borders the neighborhoods of Kiryat Hayovel and Givat Mordechai. The Shaare Zedek Medical Center is located near Bayit VeGan...

296 Beitar Illit - Jerusalem (Shmuel HaNavi, Giv'at HaTahmoshet) Begin Expressway, Yirmiyahu St., Bar Ilan St.
297 Beitar Illit - Jerusalem (Hadassah Hospital - Ein Karem
Hadassah Medical Center
Hadassah Medical Center is a medical organization that operates two University hospitals at Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, Israel, as well as schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacology affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.The hospital was founded by Hadassah,...

)
Route 386
Route 386 (Israel)
Route 386 is a road in Israel that runs from Jerusalem to Tzur Hadassah.Route 386 starts in the Givat Shaul area of Jerusalem, near the Givat Shaul interchange with Highway 404, and the Binyanei HaUma Convention Center. At this point, it is called Sderot Herzl, also known as Tzir Herzl , the...

298 Beitar Illit - Downtown Jerusalem Hebron Road, Jaffa Gate

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