Hevel Modi'in Regional Council

Hevel Modi'in חבל מודיעין
Regional council (from 1950)
Hevel Modiin Regional Council Headquarters
Interactive map of Hevel Modi'in
District	Central
Subdistrict	Ramla, Petah Tikva
Government
• Head of Municipality	Shimon Sosan
Area
• Total	128,710 dunams (128.71 km2; 49.70 sq mi)
Population  (2014)
• Total	22,800
• Density	177/km2 (459/sq mi)
Website	www.modiin-region.muni.il

Hevel Modi'in Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית חבל מודיעין, romanized: Mo'atza Azorit Hevel Modi'in, lit. 'Modi'in Region Regional Council') is a regional council located partly in the Shephelah region and partly in the Central Coastal Plain region of the Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1950 and covers an area from Petah Tikva to Modi'in. The council's headquarters are located in the town of Shoham.

The council borders

• Drom HaSharon Regional Council, El'ad and Rosh HaAyin in the north
• Mateh Binyamin Regional Council in the east
• Gezer Regional Council and Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south
• Drom HaSharon, Lod Valley Regional Council, Lod and Ramle in the west.

The head rabbi of the regional council is Rabbi Eliav Meir who is also the head rabbi of Gimzo.

List of settlements

The council covers a kibbutz, 19 moshavim, three community settlements and a youth village.

Kibbutzim

• Be'erot Yitzhak

Moshavim

• Ahisamakh
• Bareket
• Beit Arif
• Beit Nehemia
• Ben Shemen
• Bnei Atarot
• Ginaton
• Gimzo
• Givat Koah
• Hadid
• Kerem Ben Shemen
• Kfar Daniel
• Kfar Rut
• Kfar Truman
• Mazor
• Nehalim
• Rinatia
• Shilat
• Tirat Yehuda

Community settlements

• Lapid
• Mevo Modi'im
• Nofekh

Youth villages

• Ben Shemen Youth Village

Voting Patterns

In the 2022 election, 54 percent of voters in the regional council voted for the parties of the right-wing coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu, while 46 percent voted for the parties of the center-left coalition led by Yair Lapid and 0.3 percent voted for the Arab parties.

External links

• Council website (in Hebrew)