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Hod HaSharon

Hod HaSharon is a city in the Central District of Israel.

Hod HaSharon
Hod HaSharon · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Hod HaSharon is a city in the Central District of Israel. The city is located approximately ten kilometres east of the Mediterranean coastline, south of Kfar Saba, southeast of Ra'anana, and northeast of Ramat HaSharon. In 2026 it had a population of 63,700.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hod HaSharon

10 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
    Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv University is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest frontal learning university in the country.

    8.5 km · University in Tel Aviv, Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bar-Ilan University

    Bar-Ilan University is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution.

    9.9 km · Israeli research university in Ramat Gan, Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot

    Anu – Museum of the Jewish People, formerly the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, is located in Tel Aviv, Israel, at the center of the Tel Aviv University campus opposite Ramat Aviv. The Hebrew Anu אנו means 'we, us'.

    8.4 km · museum in Israel · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ramat Gan Stadium

    Ramat Gan Stadium is a football stadium in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. It served as the national stadium of Israel until 2014.

    7.8 km · football stadium in the Tel Aviv District, Israel · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Eretz Israel Museum

    The Eretz Israel Museum is a historical and archaeological museum in the Ramat Aviv neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. Eretz Israel Museum, established in 1953 as the Haaretz Museum, has a large display of archaeological, anthropological and historical artifacts organized in a series of exhibition pavilions on its grounds.

    9.7 km · historical and archeological museum in Tel Aviv, Israel · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Open University of Israel

    The Open University of Israel is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education.

    4.3 km · Israeli university for distance learning · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Arsuf

    Apollonia, known in the Early Islamic period as Arsuf and in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem as Arsur, was an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of today's Israel. In Israeli archaeology it is known as Tel Arshaf.

    8.8 km · castle ruin · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Yarkon Park

    Yarkon Park is a park in Tel Aviv, Israel, with about sixteen million visits annually. Named after the Yarkon River, which flows through it, the park includes extensive lawns, sports facilities, botanical gardens, an aviary, a water park, two outdoor concert venues and lakes.

    8.9 km · public urban park in Tel Aviv, Israel · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    HaMoshava Stadium

    The HaMoshava Stadium, also known as Petah Tikva Stadium, is a football stadium in Petah Tikva, Israel completed in 2011. It is used mainly for football matches and is home to both Hapoel Petah Tikva and Maccabi Petah Tikva.

    5.4 km · football stadium in Petah Tikva, Israel · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Reichman University

    Reichman University is a private university located in Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, Israel. It was founded in 1994 as the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya private college, before being rebranded in 2021.

    5.4 km · Israeli private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian research university; in the city of Herzliya · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Hod HaSharon

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 15 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 106 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 115 km
Stations
Herzliya Airport, 5.7 km · Petah Tikva – Kiryat Aryeh Railway Station, 5.2 km · Tel Aviv – University railway station, 9 km · Herzliya railway station, 6.4 km · Bnei Brak – Ramat HaHayal railway station, 7.2 km
  • Eilat → Hod HaSharon
    290 km · quickest by road, 5h 52m · ₪115–155
  • Amman → Hod HaSharon
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · JD6–8
  • El Arish → Hod HaSharon
    155 km · quickest by road, 4h 45m · E£370–495
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hod HaSharon

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inShared taxi vans ("sherut") cover the same route on the Sabbath.
  • Get inThere are no ferries or cruises to Herzliya, but you can bring your own boat into the marina.

From Wikivoyage: Herzliya, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-07.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    210 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    291 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    408 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    659 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,019 km

If you know how people move in Hod HaSharon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hod HaSharon

Hod HaSharon is 12 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Petah Tikvacity in the Central District of Israel, part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area7.4 km
  • Herzliyacity in the Tel Aviv District of Israel3.9 km
  • Bnei Brakcity in the Tel Aviv District, Israel9 km
  • Ra'ananacity in Israel4 km
  • Kfar Sabacity in the Central District of Israel, in the Sharon region4.6 km
  • Kiryat Onocity in the Tel Aviv District of Israel10 km