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Ben Shemen Youth Village

Ben Shemen Youth Village is a youth village and agricultural boarding school in central Israel.

Ben Shemen Youth Village
Ben Shemen Youth Village · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ben Shemen Youth Village is a youth village and agricultural boarding school in central Israel. Located near Ben Shemen and Ginaton, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 269.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ben Shemen Youth Village

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.

  1. 01
    Church 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.

    2.7 km · church building in Lod, Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Great 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.

    2.8 km · mosque in Lod, Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Jisr 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
  4. 04
    Tel Hadid

    Tel Hadid is an archaeological site in Israel.

    2.3 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Jindas

    Jindas is an archaeological site in modern-day Israel, 2 kilometers east of the city of Lod in Israel's Central District.

    2.3 km · ancient site in Israel · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Lod 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.

    3.9 km · football stadium in Lod · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ben Shemen Youth Village

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 7 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 100 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 104 km
  • Eilat → Ben Shemen Youth Village
    267 km · quickest by road, 5h 29m · ₪105–145
  • Amman → Ben Shemen Youth Village
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · JD5–7
  • El Arish → Ben Shemen Youth Village
    142 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · E£340–450
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Not yet researched

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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 Youth Village. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    189 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    269 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    387 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    677 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,035 km

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Around it

Next door to Ben Shemen Youth Village

Ben Shemen Youth Village is 19 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.