Homes in the Ela Valley and Adullam region

Oren Ben Shitrit works in a small, rural corner of Israel: the Ela Valley and the Adullam region of the Judean Lowlands, near Beit Shemesh and within reach of Jerusalem. These are moshavim and community villages — detached homes, gardens and open country — rather than city apartments.

Many buyers here are families arriving from abroad who had never heard of these villages, because almost nothing about them is written in English. These pages exist to change that: what each village is like, who it suits, and what buying actually involves when you are coming from another country.

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