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Welcome to Maale Adummim City Internet Website

The city Maale Adummim is located 7km east to Jerusalem on Jerusalem – the Dead Sea road, in a central intersection connecting between the Jordan Valley, the Judean desert and Jerusalem. The city is standing to the eastern gate leading to Jerusalem and adjacent to its northern neighborhoods.

The unique geographical location of the city provides great and unique design, touristic and commercial potential. The urban planning layout emphasizes on the construction to ensure that the houses will turn to landscapes, parks and public gardens. The city enjoys direct and convenient access to Jerusalem; within minutes, the new Har Hatsofim highway brings the city's residents to the heart of the capital. All required municipal and national services exist in Maale Adummim; hence, it is considered a regional metropolitan providing response to all neighboring settlements. The city has a spectacular archeological site and two additional magnificent archeological sites are located within the city's jurisdiction.

Maale Adummim city is a shining pearl in the State of Israel. A city filled with quality of life, educational achievements, developing commerce and qualitative residents involved in community life. In recent years, great development is evident in the city and achievements are highly recognizable at the national level as well:
* The city was granted with the national-settlement education reward;
* A high percentage of eligibility for matriculation;
* High achievement of matriculation certificate grades;
* The youth department received an outstanding youth unit award;
* High percentage of recruitment to the IDF and combat units.
The city continues to receive the five beauty stars award on a yearly basis as well as an award for environmental management in accordance with the international standard ISO 14001.

The signature piece of the city is the educational system. The educational budget comprises the cultural and youth budgets and constitutes more than 50% of the municipal budget. The city hall opened and founded dozens of new kindergartens and schools and acts to establish all the required educational institutions in the city. Placing education at the top priority turned our city into a city that has an educational message.

Maale Adummim is a city that grants its residents with a wide world of possibilities. The accelerated development of the city, its beauty and the strength it embodies, provides her with a special status as a city and as a home. More than 1,000 Dunam of green areas, dozens of playgrounds, blooming traffic islands, colorful circus, parks, environmental sculpturing and strict planning next to cooperation with the residents and a high level of awareness for the quality of the environment, turn the city into the standard bearer in the quality of the environment area and the winner of beauty and quality of the environment awards on behalf of the Council for a Beautiful Israel.

More than 38,000 residents live in Maale Adummim, a heterogenic community living in one familial harmony, religious and secular, youngsters and adults, new immigrants and senior residents from many countries, managing a qualitative lifestyle while maintaining high levels of cooperation and congregational involvement.

The city comprises dozens of kindergarten, elementary schools and high schools in the national and national-religious streams. Our children enjoy a long school day in kindergartens and in the first grade, as well as dozens of new and ongoing pedagogic and educational projects, a professional and skillful team training them to a wide world of knowledge and achievements.

The city has an urban public library – the Shalom Library in the name of Bnei Zion Organization is large and successful, the local youth cultural center services are rich and versatile, recreational activities are vast, the country club is large and considered state-of-the-art. As well, the city has advanced commercial and industrial services, the urban mall is full of life and Park Adummim industrial zone is prosperous and enjoys many unique benefits.

The community welfare and health system provides the residents with a professional and skilled team as well as unique and vast communal activities, educational and therapeutic initiatives, consultation and treatment services, a psychological service, vast projects for the community, a golden age club, a new hostel for protected tenancy and an open ear to all.

The city has a modern health system, sick fund branches, family health stations, medical treatment service, clinics, alternative medical treatments, a nursing hospital and more. The religious services are advanced; the city has synagogues and Mikvehs and various national and public services answering all needs of the residents.

All these make the city into a growingly attractive and shining pearl.