Where to stay
Hotels, guesthouses and hostels I have checked, and a quick way to search short-term rentals by neighbourhood.
Checked places
In or near the city, each with its source and the date I checked it. I take no booking fees from these.
Hotels · City Center (Merkaz HaIr)
Modiin's first hotel, opened in March 2025 next to Azrieli Mall, Anava Park and Modiin Center station, with 85 rooms and suites, meeting rooms and an event garden. Kosher under the Modiin Rabbinate, with a Shabbat lift and a synagogue on site.
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A hotel with 41 family rooms, gardens and a semi-Olympic pool in the Jewish-Arab village of Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam, facing the Ayalon Valley. About 10 km from Modiin Center station in a straight line; about 15 minutes by car.
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A kosher 67-room boutique hotel about 12 km from Ben Gurion Airport with a free airport shuttle; useful for early flights or hospital visits to Shamir Medical Center. About 17 km from Modiin Center station in a straight line.
Short-term rentals
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Formerly Buchman North. Mostly ground-level and semi-detached houses on streets named after the 12 tribes. On NBN's list of neighbourhoods popular with olim; among the priciest per m2.
Formerly Buchman South, the southernmost neighbourhood. Ground-level and semi-detached homes, 11 shuls, the Moriah Center and the skate park. Popular with English-speaking olim.
One of the first neighbourhoods (1996), planned by Moshe Safdie. Low-rise flats and semi-detached homes, with the culture hall, the main library and Givat HaTitura on the doorstep.
Formerly Givat C: central and high, next to Anava Park and the city centre. Flats, some semi-detached streets and six towers, and 22 shuls, the most of any neighbourhood.
Formerly Miromi. Central and settled from 1996, with City Hall, Terem urgent care and the Modiin Center shopping centre. Generally a little cheaper per m2 than its neighbours.
Formerly Shimshoni South, in the north-west. Flats, cottages and two tower compounds around the Solomon Center mall; 14 shuls including Darchei Tzion and Kehillat Yozma (Reform).
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Formerly Shimshoni North. Apartment buildings and towers on streets named after the Prophets, with the Dona Center for shopping. Fewer shuls than most (4).
Formerly Kaizer, on the west side by Anava Park. Flats, towers and ground-level homes, 16 shuls and the city pool. One of NBN's neighbourhoods popular with olim.
Formerly Tzipor, the most populous neighbourhood, by Route 443. Three-to-seven-storey buildings. Bizportal notes the train stations are far, so expect a car or a feeder bus.
A small, newer neighbourhood (from 2017) between Anava Park and Route 431, with bridges to Masuah and Nofim. On NBN's list of neighbourhoods popular with olim.
Settled from 2019 on the western edge, with streets named after Israeli forests, two new schools and eight gans. Popular with young olim families.
The newest neighbourhood, still being built (from 2022) at the foot of Givat Barfilya, with a commercial boulevard and 9 shuls already. Bus lines 52 and 59 were boosted to serve it.
Five-storey buildings with shops below, around Sderot Dam HaMaccabim, between Azrieli Mall, Modiin Center station and Anava Park. Mostly 2-3 room flats; the best transit in town.
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A low-rise, ground-level community at the eastern edge, founded in 1985 and part of the city since 2003. Quiet and green; residents rate public transport low and car access high.
A low-rise community south-east of Modiin, founded in 1988. Home to Beit Oleh: the city's Absorption Department and ulpan at 29 Irusim St.
Planned, nobody lives here yet: about 6,000 homes south of Nofim and HaTziporim, with schools and gans, and streets to be named after spices.
Planned, nobody lives here yet: about 3,200 homes west of HaKramim (30% affordable housing), five to nine storeys with bike paths. Numbers are still provisional.
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