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Living in Tel Mond
A small Sharon town east of Netanya with a Modern Orthodox congregation founded partly by olim, and no station of its own.
- 14,771
- residents, end of 2024
- 27 min
- fastest train to Tel Aviv
- ₪3,441,500
- median sold price, all homes
- ₪8,500
- median rent a month
The entrance to Tel Mond, November 2015. Photo by David Shay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tel Mond, in short
Suits
Modern Orthodox English-speaking families who want one established shul with shiurim in English in a small town, and households where someone commutes to Tel Aviv by car and train.
Not for
Buyers looking for a low entry price, families who need English-language schooling or an ulpan in town, non-Orthodox English speakers looking for their own congregation, or anyone who wants to walk to a train.
A 4-room home sold for a median unknown over the last year, new and older homes together. Train to Tel Aviv: 27 min fastest on a weekday. Train to Jerusalem: no direct train.
The numbers that decide it
9 of 10
Socio-economic cluster
Rank 238 of 255 authorities, 1 is lowest. CBS, 2021.
1.3%
Population growth in 2023
14,771 residents at the end of 2024. CBS.
₪3,441,500
Median sold price, all homes
Last 12 months, -6.5% on the year. nadlan.gov.il.
₪8,500
Median rent a month
Recorded rents, -15.0% on the year. nadlan.gov.il.
3.0%
Gross rental yield
As nadlan.gov.il computes it, before arnona, upkeep, vacancy and tax.
213
Homes started in 2023
156 completed the same year. CBS city profile.
What do these numbers mean for your budget?
Message us on WhatsAppThe English-speaking community
Tel Mond is a town of 14,771 residents (CBS, end of 2024) in the Sharon region, east of Netanya and north of Kfar Saba, founded in 1929. Nefesh B'Nefesh calls it home to a vibrant and active Anglo community, without a number. Of the 262 olim who settled here from 2014 to 2023, 95 came from the US and 33 from the UK, about half of the total, against 20 from the former Soviet Union (Ministry of Aliyah).
The English-speaking life we could document centres on one congregation. Kehillat Mevaser Zion describes itself as a Modern Orthodox community with classes and shiurim in Hebrew and English and a central role in welcoming olim. Hebrew Wikipedia says it was founded from 2000 by about 25 young families, some of them olim from South Africa, England and the USA, and that it had about 170 member families in 2021, a count of all members, not of English speakers. The shul's own site does not call it English-speaking.
In June 2013 the congregation inaugurated its new synagogue, and that month it opened the Pietersburg Shul: the contents and a Sefer Torah of the synagogue in Pietersburg (Polokwane), South Africa, brought to Tel Mond. Its Va'ad Chesed arranges hospitality for a new family's first few Shabbatot. Nefesh B'Nefesh lists volunteer contacts for Tel Mond; the Ministry of Aliyah's list of aliyah coordinators has no Tel Mond row.
95
olim from the US
33
from the UK
262
olim in total
Settling in Tel Mond, 2014 to 2023. Canada, South Africa and Australia are not counted separately, and the figures stop before most of the recent growth.
Source: Ministry of Aliyah, 2014 to 2023
Where this section comes from (26 sources)
- mevaser.org.il/about, undated (site current, 2026); accessed 2026-10-14
- mevaser.org.il/contact, undated (site current, 2026); accessed 2026-10-14
- he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%9C_%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%93, undated (site current, 2026); accessed 2026-10-14
- mevaser.org.il, schedule 15 Aug 2026; 2021
- mevaser.org.il/schedule, schedule 15 Aug 2026; 2021
- mevaser.org.il/about/pietersburg-shul, undated, accessed 2026-10-14 (event 23 Jun 2013)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Mond, accessed 2026-10-14; 13 Aug 2015
- jewishlink.news/central-tel-mond, accessed 2026-10-14; 13 Aug 2015
- data.gov.il/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=2055063b-93e8-4d6a-b2c5-c253d18c0cf6&q=154&limit=5000, fetched 2026-10-14; accessed 2026-10-14
- nbn.org.il/life-in-israel/community-and-housing/community-guide/tel-mond, undated (images Aug 2020), accessed 2026-10-14
- nbn.org.il/community-guide-contacts, fetched 2026-10-14
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- mevaser.org.il/about/vaad-chesed, undated, accessed 2026-10-14
- cbs.gov.il/he/publications/doclib/2019/ishuvim/bycode2024.xlsx, CBS as of 2024-12-31; others as stated
- jpost.com/israel-news/article-801656, CBS as of 2024-12-31; others as stated
- data.gov.il/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d735ad06-8bde-41aa-8350-a15a36bac18f&q=154&limit=5000, 2014 to 2023; census 2022; 2015
- data.gov.il/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=9a9e085f-3bc8-41df-b15f-be0daaf99e30&q=154&limit=5000, 2014 to 2023; census 2022; 2015
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- cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2025/1955/t02.pdf, 2021; census 2022
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- data.gov.il/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=7c8255d0-49ef-49db-8904-4cf917586031&q=154&limit=5000, fetched 2026-10-14
- nadlan.gov.il/?view=settlement&id=154&page=deals, 2026-08-20 (quarter to Sep 2025)
- nadlan.gov.il/?view=settlement_rent&id=154&page=rent, 2026-08-20; Q2 2026
- cbs.gov.il/he/publications/Madad/DocLib/2026/price08a/a4_9_h.pdf, 2026-08-20; Q2 2026
- gtfs.mot.gov.il/gtfsfiles/israel-public-transportation.zip, fetched 2026-10-14
Tel Mond
Beit HaLord, March 2021. Photo by Danny Gershoni, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Where people live
Beit HaLord
Tel Mond was founded on 16 June 1929 by Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, whose company planted citrus orchards to provide employment for Jewish labourers. Beit HaLord (The Lord's House) serves as a documentary center and museum on that era, the Jerusalem Post wrote in May 2024; Hebrew Wikipedia calls it one of the town's first seven permanent houses.
Source: Jerusalem Post · 19 May 2024
Hadarim, Tziporim, Haregashot
Nefesh B'Nefesh names these three as the popular neighbourhoods among olim.
New neighbourhoods
Hebrew Wikipedia says new low-rise neighbourhoods were built on the town's edges, and that the local outline plan adds more, mainly in the west, alongside urban renewal.
Who lives here
Nefesh B'Nefesh describes an intimate suburb with both religious and secular residents. In the 2022 census the most common household described itself as secular.
73.9%
of households own their home
19.9%
rent
32
median age
3.3
people per household
6.1%
born in the Americas
73.3%
work outside the city
Schools
6 active schools in Tel Mond, by stream
5 State
1 State religious
Schools
The Ministry of Education lists 6 active schools in Tel Mond: 5 state and 1 state-religious. Hebrew Wikipedia names the state-religious elementary school as Ohr Torah, and a six-year school for grades 7 to 12 named after Yitzhak Rabin. Mevaser Zion's site calls Ohr Torah a leading institution in the Sharon region; we found no ministry ranking behind that.
English-language schools
We found no school or gan in Tel Mond that teaches in English or names English support. Nefesh B'Nefesh lists a volunteer who acts as liaison to the local Orthodox elementary school. Ask the council and the schools themselves.
Hebrew for adults
Nefesh B'Nefesh says residents can receive olim services such as ulpan in the neighbouring cities, Netanya and Ra'anana. We found no ulpan in Tel Mond itself.
Getting around
Direct trains from בית יהושע station, 5.4 km in a straight line from the city's centre point, on one weekday of the current timetable.
To Tel Aviv HaHagana
27min
fastest; median 28 min, 56 direct trains a weekday
To Tel Aviv Savidor
19min
fastest; median 19 min, 56 direct trains a weekday
To Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon
None
no direct train, a change is needed
No train in town
Tel Mond has no railway station of its own. The nearest is Beit Yehoshua, 5.4 km in a straight line from the town's centre point, whose fastest weekday train reaches Tel Aviv Savidor in 19 minutes (Ministry of Transport, 14 Oct 2026). The train figures on this page are Beit Yehoshua's, not the town's, and do not include the trip to the station.
Source: Ministry of Transport GTFS
Work
In the 2022 census 73.3% of Tel Mond's employed residents worked outside the town.
Source: CBS Census 2022
AACI and ESRA
We found no AACI or ESRA branch in Tel Mond and no council page for olim. Nefesh B'Nefesh points olim to Netanya and Ra'anana for services.
Beit Yehoshua station, the nearest to Tel Mond and the station the train minutes on this page are from, April 2015. Photo by My another account, Wikimedia Commons, CC0
What homes sold and rented for
Recorded deals from the Tax Authority, last 12 months. They mix new apartments and older homes, so they are neither the new-build price nor the resale price.
Sold, median price
nadlan.gov.il has no sale summary for Tel Mond.
Latest quarter (to Sep 2025): ₪3,441,500 here against ₪1,938,500 nationally.
Rented, median a month
- 3 rooms₪5,325
0.0% on the year
- 4 rooms₪5,750
+4.6% on the year
- 5 rooms₪7,600
0.0% on the year
The CBS rent survey, a different series, puts average free-market rent at ₪5,474 a month (Q2 2026) for the Central District as a whole; Tel Mond has no row of its own.
What else is being built
213
homes started in 2023
156 completed. CBS.
16
state land tenders since 2000
1 opened since 2023. Israel Land Authority.
0
Dira BeHanacha lotteries
The state's discounted-price lottery.
Running costs and safety
Arnona, average billed
₪53.2
per square metre a year, 2023. The city’s total residential billing over billed area, not your street’s tariff.
Source: CBS city profile, 2023
Bank of Israel rate
3.25%
The base for mortgage pricing, not a mortgage rate.
Source: Bank of Israel, 13 Oct 2026
Siren warning time
90seconds
to reach a protected space. New buildings must have one: usually a safe room in the apartment (mamad), in some a shared one per floor (mamak). Ask which.
Source: Home Front Command, 14 Oct 2026
The downsides
Prices far above the national median
In the quarter ending Sep 2025, the latest with a Tel Mond figure, the median sold home went for ₪3,441,500, against ₪1,938,500 nationally, new and older homes together. nadlan.gov.il publishes no split by number of rooms for Tel Mond.
Source: nadlan.gov.il
Low rental yield, thin rent data
nadlan.gov.il computes a gross rental yield of 3.0% for Tel Mond, before arnona, maintenance, vacancy and tax. Its rent figures rest on few deals: the all-homes median sits above every room band, so treat them as rough.
Source: nadlan.gov.il
A drive to the train
The nearest station is Beit Yehoshua, 5.4 km away in a straight line, so every train trip starts with a drive or a bus. The timetable has no direct train from Beit Yehoshua to Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon (Ministry of Transport, 14 Oct 2026).
Source: Ministry of Transport GTFS
One documented congregation
Mevaser Zion is the only shul we found that offers shiurim in English, and its own site does not call it English-speaking. We found no non-Orthodox congregation and no count of English speakers; Hebrew Wikipedia's about 170 member families (2021) counts all members.
Few new-home schemes
The CBS counts 213 homes started in Tel Mond in 2023. The Dira BeHanacha lottery data has no Tel Mond rows, and the Israel Land Authority has no live tender here (fetched 14 Oct 2026).
Who should pick Tel Mond, and who should not
Pick it if you are
- Modern Orthodox families who want a shul with shiurim in English and help settling in.
- Families who want a town where religious and secular residents live side by side.
- Households where one partner drives to Beit Yehoshua for the train to Tel Aviv.
Look elsewhere if you are
- Buyers on a tight budget.
- Investors buying for rental income.
- Families who need English-language schooling.
- Anyone who needs to walk to a train, or a direct train to Jerusalem.
Questions about Tel Mond
Is Tel Mond good for English speakers?
It has a documented Anglo community around one shul. Nefesh B'Nefesh calls it vibrant and active and lists volunteer contacts, and Kehillat Mevaser Zion runs shiurim in English. The Ministry of Aliyah counts 95 olim from the US and 33 from the UK among the 262 who settled here from 2014 to 2023. There is no count of English speakers.
Where do English speakers live in Tel Mond?
Nefesh B'Nefesh names Hadarim, Tziporim and Haregashot as the popular neighbourhoods among olim.
Is there an English-speaking shul in Tel Mond?
Kehillat Mevaser Zion, a Modern Orthodox congregation on HaTsufit Street, runs classes and shiurim in Hebrew and English and says it plays a central role in welcoming olim. Some of its founding families were olim from South Africa, England and the USA, per Hebrew Wikipedia. It does not call itself English-speaking, and we found no other congregation that does.
What is the Pietersburg Shul in Tel Mond?
The contents and a Sefer Torah of the synagogue in Pietersburg (Polokwane), South Africa, were brought to Tel Mond and presented to Mevaser Zion. The opening, on 23 June 2013, was attended by more than 300 people, the congregation's site says.
Is Tel Mond religious?
It is mixed. Nefesh B'Nefesh describes religious and secular residents, and in the 2022 census the most common household described itself as secular. Mevaser Zion says Orthodox, traditional and secular families sit side by side in its kehilla.
How much does a home cost in Tel Mond?
The median recorded sale over the last 12 months was ₪3,441,500, new and older homes together, 6.5% lower than the year before (nadlan.gov.il, 20 Aug 2026). There is no split by number of rooms, and the latest quarter with a Tel Mond figure ends Sep 2025.
Source: nadlan.gov.il
How much is rent in Tel Mond?
The median recorded rent over the last 12 months was ₪5,750 a month for 4 rooms (nadlan.gov.il, 20 Aug 2026). The all-homes median of ₪8,500 sits above every room band, a sign of few deals, so treat both as rough.
Source: nadlan.gov.il
How long is the train from Tel Mond to Tel Aviv?
There is no station in town. From Beit Yehoshua, 5.4 km away, the fastest direct weekday train takes 19 minutes to Tel Aviv Savidor and 27 minutes to HaHagana (56 direct trains to Savidor that day), per the Ministry of Transport timetable fetched 14 Oct 2026. Add the trip to Beit Yehoshua. There is no direct train from Beit Yehoshua to Jerusalem.
Source: Ministry of Transport GTFS
Is there an olim coordinator in Tel Mond who speaks English?
The Ministry of Aliyah's coordinator list has no Tel Mond row, which does not mean there is none. Nefesh B'Nefesh lists volunteer contacts for the town.
How long do you have to reach a shelter in Tel Mond?
90 seconds from the siren, according to the Home Front Command.
Source: Home Front Command · 14 Oct 2026
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Sources and method
- CBS Localities File 2024, 31 Dec 2024
- CBS Census 2022, data.gov.il, 31 Dec 2022
- Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, olim by receiving locality (new-olim-by-cities), data.gov.il, 2014 to 2023
- Ministry of Education institutions (mosdot_edu), data.gov.il, 14 Oct 2026
- Ministry of Construction and Housing, Dira BeHanacha lotteries (mechir-lamishtaken), data.gov.il, date unknown
- Home Front Command alert areas (districts_heb.json), 14 Oct 2026
- Bank of Israel interest rate (SDMX BR), 13 Oct 2026
- CBS, Local Authorities in Israel 2023, authority profile (publication 1987), 31 Dec 2023; 2023; date unknown; 2022; Jun 2024; 2021
- CBS, Characterization and Classification of Geographical Units by Socio-Economic Level, 2021, table 2, 2021
- CBS Price Statistics Monthly, table 4.9, average free-market rent, Q2 2026
- Ministry of Transport GTFS, Israel Railways (agency 2), 14 Oct 2026
- nadlan.gov.il (Tax Authority deal records), site's own summary, 20 Aug 2026
- Israel Land Authority tenders (michrazim), 14 Oct 2026
Official figures fetched 14 Oct 2026. Each date is the period the source covers, or for live lists (schools, tenders, timetable, warning times) the day we fetched it. 1 field(s) failed to load and are shown as unknown. Page written 14 Oct 2026.