Israel
Shfelah
Central District

Modi’in

Modi'in is a relatively new Israeli city located in the Shfela, halfway between and . There are some archaeological sites in the city as well as popular tourist attractions nearby.
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  • Type: Town with 93,300 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Gane Modi‘in”, “Makkabbim”, “Makkabim”, “Modi‘in”, “Modi‘in Makkabbim Re‘ut”, “Modi’in Makkabbim Re’ut”, “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”, “Modiin”, “Modiin-Maccabim-Reut”, “Naẖal Modi‘im”, and “Ramot Modi‘in”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Modi’in Center and Barfilya.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Modi'in–Center railway station is an Israel Railways passenger terminal and one of two stations serving Modi'in. It is the terminus of the -Modi'in line, with service to the airport, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Akko.

Peak
Photo: McKaby, Public domain.
Barfiliya was a Palestinian village located 10.5 kilometres east of that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Located on a tell, excavations conducted there by archaeologists beginning in 1995 found artifacts dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period.

Park
Photo: Avi1111, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Modi’in Illit and Lapid.

Town
Photo: Dvirraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Modi'in Illit is a Haredi Jewish-Israeli settlement organized as a city council in the , situated midway between and . Built on the land of five Palestinian villages–, Kharbata, , , and Dir Qadis–Modi'in Illit was granted city status by the Israeli government in 2008. is situated 4½ km northeast of Modi’in.

Village
Photo: Pesis, CC0.
is an Israeli community settlement. Located in the Latrun salient of the Green Line near , it falls under the jurisdiction of . In 2023 it had a population of 2,047.

Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an Israeli settlement located in the western section of the , off Route 443. is located two kilometers east of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, midway between and and is part of the .

Modi’in

Latitude
31.9086° or 31° 54′ 31″ north
Longitude
35.0069° or 35° 0′ 25″ east
Population
93,300
Elevation
276 metres (906 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL MOD
Open location code
8G3QW254+CQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246843698
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
282926
Wiki­data ID
Q165867
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Modi’in” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Arabic: “موديعين مكابيم ريعوت”
  • Arabic: “موديعين-مكابيم-ريعوت”
  • Armenian: “Մոդիին Մակկաբիմ Ռեուտ”
  • Asturian: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Belarusian: “Мадыін-Макабім-Рэўт”
  • Belarusian: “Модзіін”
  • Bulgarian: “Модин”
  • Catalan: “Modiin-Maccabim-Reut”
  • Cebuano: “Modiin”
  • Chinese: “莫迪因-馬卡比姆-雷烏特”
  • Chuvash: “Модиин-Маккабим-Реут”
  • Czech: “Modi’in-Makabim-Re’ut”
  • Danish: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Danish: “Modiin”
  • Dutch: “Modi’ien-Makkabiem-Re’oet”
  • Dutch: “Modi’in-Makkabim-Re’oet”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “موديعين مكابيم ريعوت”
  • Esperanto: “Modi’in-Makkabim-Re’ut”
  • Esperanto: “Modiino”
  • Finnish: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • French: “Modiin-Maccabim-Reout”
  • German: “Modi’in”
  • German: “Modiʿin”
  • Greek: “Μοντιίν-Μακκαμπίμ-Ρεούτ”
  • Hebrew: “Makkabbim Re‘ut”
  • Hebrew: “Re‘ut”
  • Hebrew: “מודיעין מכבים רעות”
  • Hebrew: “מודיעין-מכבים-רעות”
  • Hebrew: “מוֹדִיעִין-מַכַּבִּים-רֵעוּת”
  • Hebrew: “מודיעין‏־מכבים־רעות”
  • Hebrew: “מודיעין”
  • Hebrew: “מכבים רעות”
  • Hebrew: “רעות”
  • Hindi: “मोदीन मक्कबिम रियुट”
  • Indonesian: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Italian: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Japanese: “モディイン・マカビム・ルート”
  • Japanese: “モディイン・マカビム・レウト”
  • Japanese: “モディイン”
  • Japanese: “モディン”
  • Korean: “모디인마카빔레우트”
  • Ladino: “Modi’in”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Norwegian: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Persian: “مودیعین-مکابیم-ریعوت”
  • Polish: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Polish: “Modi’in-Makkabbim-Re’ut”
  • Portuguese: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Romanian: “Modiin-Maccabim-Reut”
  • Russian: “Модиин-Маккабим-Реут”
  • Scots: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Serbian: “Модин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Spanish: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Spanish: “Modi’ín”
  • Swahili: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Swedish: “Modiin”
  • Tagalog: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Turkish: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Turkish: “Modi’in-Makkabim-Re’ut”
  • Ukrainian: “Модіїн-Маккабім-Реут”
  • Ukrainian: “Модіїн”
  • Urdu: “مودیعین مکابیم ریعوت”
  • Urdu: “مودیعین-مکابیم-ریعوت”
  • Vietnamese: “Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut”
  • Yiddish: “מודיעין”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Modi’in”. Photo: Righteos, CC BY-SA 3.0.