Tel Mond. תל מונד

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Where it is

Tel Mond sits in the central Sharon, east of Netanya and north of Kfar Saba, reached by Highways 4 and 57. Netanya's beaches are about ten minutes by car and Ra'anana about 15. The town covers about 8 sq km.

There is no railway station. The nearest is Beit Yehoshua on the coastal line, about 20 minutes by train to Tel Aviv once you get there. Buses are limited, and most families run one or two cars.

The town is a patchwork. HaMa'aravit (the Western neighbourhood) has the newer cottages, duplexes and low-rise blocks; HaYe'arot has semi-detached homes on the 'Ya'ar' streets overlooking Kfar Hess; Wolfson is the apartment quarter, with 6–9 floor blocks on HaDekel; Eli Cohen and Sprinzak hold older three-floor blocks; Avnei Chen and the old moshava core around HaPrachim are private houses.

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From orange groves to Sharon suburb

Tel Mond was founded in June 1929 by Alfred Mond, Lord Melchett, the British industrialist and Zionist leader. His Palestine Plantations Company bought land and planted citrus to employ Jewish workers, and Moshav Tel Mond followed in 1933, when farmers bought land from the company.

Other settlements grew around it: Kfar Ziv in 1936, and the Ya'akov neighbourhood, founded by Yemenite immigrants in 1943. In 1954 these and the 1950s villages Neve Oved and Hadar Hayim were merged into the Tel Mond local council. Melchett's former home is now the town museum.

For decades it stayed a quiet moshava. Growth came with new neighbourhoods of houses and low-rise flats, and the population reached 14,771 in 2024, with projections of more than 25,000 by 2030.

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What it is actually like today

Tel Mond is a town of houses. About 90% of homes are semi-detached, the streets are quiet and green, and it feels more like a large village than a suburb. Residents rate it highly for safety (4.5 out of 5 on Madlan) and schools (4.4), and badly for public transport (2.2).

Schools are a draw. State primaries include Nof Yaldut, Nitzanim and Shalanu, and Ohr Torah is a national-religious school with English classes and Hebrew support for newcomers. Beit Hinuch Rabin covers grades 7 to 12.

Shopping and nightlife are limited, so bigger errands mean Netanya, Kfar Saba or Ra'anana. Almost everything depends on the car.

04

Renewal: the plans for Tel Mond

Most new supply is low-rise. Shpunder Ritov on HaNote'a has completed boutique flats, with registered deals of roughly ₪4.2–6.1m at about ₪30,000/sqm. VillaMond, by A.B. Rimonim, has finished 64 flats in four buildings in the Korma area. Ofek Hadash BaSharon is building 40 flats in blocks of up to three floors on HaKorem, and MON:DU will add 40 attached townhouses. Le Mond is a cottage scheme beside an 18-dunam park.

The one big renewal plan is Eli Cohen. A pinui-binui there would replace 102 flats in five buildings with 370 units in 8–10 floor blocks, plus commercial space. The council objected, and its objections were rejected on appeal in November 2025. It is still at planning stage.

Off-plan buyers should check delivery dates, which are not stated for MON:DU or Ofek Hadash, and some newer land is Israel Land Authority leasehold rather than freehold.

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Who lives here

Tel Mond is mainly owner-occupier families, many trading up from flats in nearby cities for a house and garden. The town leans centre-left politically, with about 65% voting for the centre-left bloc in 2022.

There is a long-established English-speaking community, both religious and secular. Its hub is Kehillat Mevaser Zion, a Modern Orthodox congregation that opened its synagogue in 2013 and runs a welcome programme for new olim. Anglo families cluster in the Tziporim, Giron, Rigashot and Achuzat Adarim pockets.

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Prices and what you get

Our median is ₪25,301/sqm on 153 registered sales from January 2023 to March 2026, with houses and flats pooled. That gives a notional 70 sqm three-room at about ₪1.77m and a 100 sqm four-room at about ₪2.53m, but most buyers here are buying houses, which typically cost ₪4.2–5.5m. The sample is small and house-heavy, so there is no reliable yearly trend.

Neighbourhoods differ. In Wolfson the median deal is about ₪1.88m at ₪25,536/sqm; in Eli Cohen and Sprinzak about ₪1.95m at ₪31,231/sqm. House areas run higher: Ya'ar Horshim's median deal is ₪4.27m and HaDuvdevan's ₪5.2m. Recent sales include a 102 sqm five-room at HaDekel 68 in Wolfson for ₪2.3m, a 144 sqm five-room at Ya'ar Lahav 5 for ₪4.25m, and a 239 sqm eight-room house on HaLimon for ₪5.5m.

Per metre, Tel Mond is about ₪2,300 below Even Yehuda, ₪6,400 below Kfar Saba and ₪8,900 below Ra'anana, and roughly level with Netanya. Asking rent is about ₪5,220 for a three-room, ₪9,200 for a four-room and ₪13,000–15,000 for a house. The gross yield on a 70 sqm three-room is about 3.5%. Budget about ₪27,000 to move into a three-room rental.

Purchase tax is light for owner-occupiers on flats. On a ₪1.77m three-room an oleh and a resident buying a sole home pay nothing; a non-resident or additional-home buyer pays about ₪141,686. On a ₪2.53m four-room the figures are ₪2,757 for an oleh, ₪22,043 for a resident and ₪202,408 for a non-resident. On a house at ₪4–5m the bill is much higher, so run the numbers.

Full price brief for Tel Mond: every registered sale, rents and purchase tax →

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Buying here: what to check before you sign

• Compare houses with houses. The town median mixes flats and houses. Use comparables of the same type, size and plot.
• Check the title. Some newer land is Israel Land Authority leasehold. Ask your lawyer what the rights are and what consents a sale needs.
• Secure off-plan payments. On new schemes, insist on Sale Law bank guarantees and a firm delivery date with compensation for delay.
• Watch for bad registry data. Some deals are mis-recorded, such as a 91 sqm flat logged at ₪800,000. Do not price off a single line.
• In Eli Cohen, ask about the pinui-binui. If you buy in the five buildings in the plan, find out how far it has got and whether a premium is already in the price.
• Cost a second car. With no station and weak buses, budget for two cars and test the drive to work at rush hour.
• Find your community first. If you want the Anglo community, visit Mevaser Zion and walk the Tziporim, Giron, Rigashot and Achuzat Adarim streets.

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Who it suits

09

The verdict