Nordia Hostel

Hotel

Gan HaDekel Street, Nordia

A 50-room hostel among lawns in moshav Nordia, founded in 1981 as the Betar movement's youth centre, that hosts groups and conferences in the week and families at weekends.

Nordia Hostel has 50 guest rooms among wide lawns and seating areas in moshav Nordia, with a dining room that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, a synagogue, halls, equipped classrooms and an auditorium, and free parking for guests. It began in 1981 as the Betar movement's youth centre, opened in the presence of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, became an immigrant absorption ulpan in the 1990s and a hostel about a decade later, according to the council's tourism site, which counts 24 double rooms that take up to four guests, 26 rooms of five to eight beds and 250 beds in all. Over the years it has housed members of the Bnei Menashe community, refugees from Ukraine and families evacuated from the north in the Swords of Iron war. In the week it hosts conferences, seminars, schools, youth movements, summer camps and Ministry of Defence groups, and at weekends families, Shabbat chatan and bar mitzvah celebrations.