Ben Shemen
Ben Shemen is a moshav in central Israel.
Ben Shemen is a moshav in central Israel. Located around four kilometres east of Lod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 849.
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Worth seeing in and around Ben Shemen
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Church of Saint George
The Church of Saint George is a Greek Orthodox church, located in the city of Lod, Israel. The church contains a sarcophagus venerated as the tomb of the fourth-century Christian martyr Saint George.
2.4 km · church building in Lod, Israel · Wikipedia - 02Great Omari Mosque of Lod
The Great Omari Mosque of Lod, also known as al-Omari Mosque or the Great Mosque of Lod, is a Friday mosque located in the city of Lod, in central Israel. The 15th-century mosque is built over part of a site that contained a former medieval church that was destroyed in the 12th century and rebuilt during the 19th-century as the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint George.
2.4 km · mosque in Lod, Israel · Wikipedia - 03Jisr Jindas
Jisr Jindas, Arabic for "Jindas Bridge", also known as Baybars Bridge, was built in 1273 CE. It crosses a small wadi, known in Hebrew as the Ayalon River, on the old road leading south to Lod and Ramla. The bridge is named after the historic village of Jindas, which stood east of the bridge.
2.8 km · bridge in Lod, Israel · Wikipedia - 04Tel Hadid
Tel Hadid is an archaeological site in Israel.
2.7 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia - 05Jindas
Jindas is an archaeological site in modern-day Israel, 2 kilometers east of the city of Lod in Israel's Central District.
2.4 km · ancient site in Israel · Wikipedia - 06Lod Municipal Stadium
Lod Municipal Stadium is a football stadium in Neot Itzhak neighborhood of Lod, Israel. It is currently the home stadium of Hapoel Bnei Lod.
3.4 km · football stadium in Lod · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ben Shemen
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 7 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 101 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 104 km
- Eilat → Ben Shemen267 km · quickest by road, 5h 30m · ₪105–140
- Amman → Ben Shemen97 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · JD5–7
- El Arish → Ben Shemen141 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · E£335–450
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ben Shemen
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ben Shemen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inShared taxis run along route 51, enter Petah Tikva along Jabotinsky road (via Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak) on a 24/7 basis.
From Wikivoyage: Petah Tikva, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Ben Shemen is 20 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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