Eshel Hashomron Hotel

Hotel · No kosher certificate

Ariel Junction, Route 5, Ariel

A hotel of about 94 rooms at Ariel Junction on Route 5, with a large outdoor pool and a full-size model of the biblical Tabernacle in its back courtyard.

Eshel Hashomron Hotel stands at Ariel Junction on Route 5, and its site calls it the only Jewish-Israeli hotel in the heart of Samaria, for years a home for heritage tourists, organised groups and families touring the region's springs, archaeological sites, wineries and biblical landscapes. It has about 94 rooms and about four suites, many with a balcony over the Samarian hills, a large outdoor pool among palms and gardens, free parking and Wi-Fi, and a dining room that its site says is kosher, serving an Israeli breakfast, with hot meals for groups ordered ahead. In its back courtyard stands an educational, full-size model of the Tabernacle, with its courtyard, the bronze altar and laver, the menorah, the table of showbread and the incense altar, open for guided visits by groups, schools, families and single visitors. Its halls host conferences, study days, seminars, family events and Shabbat chatan weekends, and its reception is open 24 hours.