Mevo Modi'im • Ben Shemen Forest
Mevo Modi'imVillage Homes in the Forest, Minutes from Modi'in and Ben Gurion
Fifty-two homes. Ten dunams. One of the last low-density communities being built in the centre of Israel.
Fifty-two homes. Ten dunams. One of the last low-density communities being built in the centre of Israel.
Ascend's portfolio has been built on towers, on sea views and on skylines. Mevo Modi'im is the deliberate exception. It is a village of a few dozen families inside a working forest, a quarter of an hour from Ben Gurion, where the home has a garden instead of a lobby and the neighbours are counted rather than estimated.
Mevo Modi'im was founded in the 1970s and grew into one of the most distinctive small communities in central Israel, home to roughly fifty families living among the pines of the Ben Shemen Forest.
In May 2019 a wildfire moved through the forest and into the village. Forty of the fifty homes were lost in a single afternoon. What followed was not an ending. The Israel Land Authority opened two tenders covering 112 new residential units, and the village began the work of building itself back, larger than it had been.
Tazpit Real Estate won the first of those tenders: 52 homes across approximately ten dunams, the only developer-led residential project on the village's land. Phase A has sold. Phase B is now in the market.
The village sits just off Route 443, between Ben Shemen Junction and the city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut. It is one of the few addresses in Israel that is genuinely rural and genuinely central at the same time: the forest begins at the edge of the street, and the country's main airport, its two largest cities and a direct rail line are all inside a short drive.
~15 min
Ben Gurion Airport
~10 min
Modi'in & Rail Station
~35 min
Tel Aviv
~35 min
Jerusalem
Approximate driving times outside peak hours. Modi'in Central station serves both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem by direct rail.
Low-rise, low-density, and small enough that the whole community fits on a single walk.
Open ground floors with the kitchen at the centre, full-height glazing onto the garden, and attic bedrooms lit by roof lights. The finish level is contemporary and restrained, designed to sit quietly against the forest rather than compete with it.
Between thirty and ninety-five square metres of private garden, plus pergolas, paved terraces and roof decks looking out over the forest. In a country where most new stock is a balcony on the fourteenth floor, this is the actual product.
White render, dark framed openings and a pitched roof line: the vocabulary of an Israeli village rather than an urban block. The gable is not decoration. It buys the attic level that turns a two-storey home into a triplex, and it gives the top floor its light.
The homes step down the slope so that each row keeps its outlook over the one below, and the rear elevations open onto open land rather than onto each other.
"The measure of a village house is not the lobby. It is whether you can eat outside in October and still see the trees."
No infinity pool, no concierge desk, no lobby. Ben Shemen, one of the largest planted forests in Israel, starts where the street ends.
The village plan provides for the institutions that make a small place work. These are shared with existing residents rather than fenced off for new arrivals.
An observant village with active congregations.
Early years on site, schools in nearby Modi'in.
Communal hall and sports hall within the village.
Landscaped open space between the homes.
In a tower, you buy a slice of a building. Here you buy ground in one of the tightest supply markets in the country: a village of fifty homes that will grow to roughly one hundred and sixty, inside a protected forest, in the geographic centre of Israel. There is no second phase of land to release.
The scale of the underlying land value is a matter of public record. Tazpit Real Estate paid approximately NIS 75 million for the site plus NIS 14.7 million in development fees, working out at roughly NIS 1.7 million of land cost per home before a single wall was built. In the parallel tender for private plots, around 600 bidders competed for 60 lots.
"The demand signal here was never marketing. Six hundred families bid on sixty plots in a village most Israelis could not find on a map."
Pricing figure as reported in Israeli press coverage of the project and provided for orientation only. Current availability and pricing are confirmed directly with the developer on request.
Fifty-two homes of five and six rooms, arranged across thirteen plots on one to three levels. Every home has private outdoor space: a garden, a roof terrace, or both. Floor plans below are the developer's own drawings.
Areas are the developer's published figures and are approximate. Final areas per unit are confirmed in the sale contract and technical specification.
Mevo Modi'im sits inside the Ben Shemen Forest in central Israel, just off Route 443 between Ben Shemen Junction and the city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut. Ben Gurion Airport is roughly a quarter of an hour away by car, and Modi'in Central railway station connects directly to both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The Tazpit project comprises 52 homes on approximately ten dunams across thirteen plots, offered in four types: Garden Apartment, Penthouse Duplex, Front Triplex and Rear Triplex. Phase A has been sold and Phase B is currently being marketed. Because the total is fixed by the land tender, remaining availability moves quickly. Contact us for a live inventory list.
Yes. Non-residents have the same legal right to purchase private property in Israel as citizens. Ascend Israel Properties coordinates the full acquisition on behalf of overseas buyers, including power of attorney, legal review and currency-transfer logistics. For a cost breakdown including purchase tax, see our Transaction Calculator.
The reconstruction was planned and tendered by the Israel Land Authority following the May 2019 fire, and the new homes are being built to current Israeli construction standards, which differ substantially from the largely older housing stock lost in the fire. Fire-safety planning, access roads and infrastructure formed part of the agreement between the village committee and the Land Authority. We are happy to walk any buyer through the specification and the planning file in detail.
It suits two profiles particularly well. Families planning aliyah who want space, a garden and a small observant community rather than an apartment in a city. And overseas owners who want a home fifteen minutes from the airport that the family can reach without a long drive after a transatlantic flight. It is less suited to a purely yield-driven investor, since low-density village housing rents differently from urban stock.
Netanel Hershtik
Broker & Concierge