Candle-lighting
This site shows Hebcal's standard for Israel: candles 20 minutes before sunset. We have not found a different published local custom for Hod HaSharon; if your shul uses another time, follow it. See Shabbat times.
Shuls
OpenStreetMap lists 18 synagogues in the city, among them:
- Magdiel Central Synagogue, built between 1930 and 1944 and inaugurated, still unfinished, in 1931. Before 1948 it served as a Haganah headquarters, and in 2009 a small Haganah weapons cache from the 1948 war was found there.
- Central Ashkenazi Synagogue (Rav Kook) and the Central Sephardi Synagogue.
- Neighbourhood shuls such as Yeshurun, Etz Chaim, Or Yisrael, Nachalat Achim, Zichron Moshe, Hod Yosef and HaRambam, and the Yedid Nefesh community.
See every shul listing. These come from OpenStreetMap, so davening times and nusach are not listed yet: ask the gabbai or check the shul's notices.
Mikvaot
The city's religious council runs six mikvaot, listed by the Ministry of Religious Services: Giora (2 HaBavli St), Gil Amal (4 HaNegev St), Ganei Tzvi (13 Simtat HaDvash), Magdiel (30 Sokolov St), Neve Ne'eman (18 Shimon HaTzadik St) and Ramatayim (31 Yehoshua Ben Gamla St). Hours differ in summer and winter; call ahead. See the mikveh listings.
Religious schools
Alongside the state schools there are state-religious (mamlachti dati) and Haredi schools and gans; see the schools guide.