Hadera (Hebrew: חדרה) is a city in the Israeli Coastal Plain, about halfway from Tel Aviv to Haifa. It is mostly known by the landmark Orot Rabin Power Plant chimneys, where 19% of Israel's electricity is generated.

Get in

By bus

• 1 Hadera's Central Bus Station (Tachana Merkazit Hadera). Located in the city.  
  • From Tel Aviv take bus lines 852 or 872. These lines stop at the Central Bus Station.
  • From Jerusalem take bus line 942. This line terminates at the central bus station.
  • From Haifa take bus line 921 from Carmel Beach CBS. This line stops at the central bus station.

Also see Bus travel in Israel.

By rail

• 2 Hadera Train station (Hadera west). Service from/to any other train station in Israel, including Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, Haifa and more. The station is near Hadera forest and not inside any neighborhood, so you'll need to take a local bus to the city center or most sites of interest.  

Get around

There are 14 local bus lines, operated by Egged.

Lines 16, 18, 20 are commuter lines to the train station. The regular service bus lines are 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 22. Lines 6, 7, 9 and 11 are circular lines that depart from the Central Bus Station.

Line 54, operated by Kavim, is also somehow a local bus line but it has few stops at Hadera and it continues to the town of Elyakhin.

See

• Khan Museum of Hadera, HaGiborim 74. A museum of Hadera's history, housed in an mid-1800s Ottoman building 
• 1 Hadera river park (Park Nahal Hadera). A park next to Hadera river and the power plant. (updated May 2017)
• 2 Hadera Forest. (updated May 2017)
• 3 Orot Rabin Power Plant, ☏ +972 4 624-1561. Israel's largest power plant, supplying 19% of the country's electricity. During holidays and vacations, you can arrange to visit as part of a group. Minimum age for children is 8. 

Do

• 1 Technoda. A science museum. (updated Jun 2016)
• Eucalyptus trail. A trail connecting all the historic sites in central Hadera. 

Buy

• 1 Lev Hadera Mall, ☏ +972 4-6322570, fax: +972 4-6342838. Su-Tu 9:00-21:00, F 9:00-14:30, Sa 20:00-22:30. A typical shopping mall at the city center. Used to be the biggest in Hadera. 
• 2 Mall Ha'Hof Village (מול החוף וילג') (Bus lines #1, #15 and #20). Su-Tu 9:00-22:00, F 9:00-14:30, Sa 20:00-22:00. The restaurants are open until late night hours except Friday nights. The biggest shopping mall in the city. An outdoor shopping mall that also contains a surfing wave pool. 

Sleep

These is a single hotel in Hadera.

• 1 Ramada Hadera, 2 Rechab'am Ze'evi St, ☏ +972 4 8866700 (*9410 in Israel). Located near Kfar HaYam complex. 

Go next

• Caesarea is located north of Hadera.

Routes through Hadera

Haifa ← Caesarea ←	N  S	→ Netanya, Herzliya → Tel Aviv
Nahariyya, Akko, Haifa ←	N  S	→ Netanya, Herzliya → Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion International Airport