Modi'in

Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut (Hebrew: מוֹדִיעִין-מַכַּבִּים-רֵעוּת), for short Modi'in or Modin, is a city located in central Israel, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv and 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Jerusalem, and is connected to those two cities via Highway 443. In 2018 the population was 92,406. The population density in that year was 1,794 people per square kilometer.

A part of the city (the Maccabim neighborhood) is not recognized by the European Union as being in Israel, as it lies in what the 1949 Armistice Agreement with Jordan left as a no man's land, and was occupied in 1967 by Israel after it was captured from Jordan together with the West Bank proper.

Modern Modi'in is located near the site of ancient Modi'in, the place of origin of the Maccabee family, who became the ruling dynasty of an independent Jewish state in the 2nd century BCE. Ancient Jewish artifacts believed to date to the First Temple and Hasmonean periods have been found in the area.

Modi'in in Alpha and Omega
The ancient site of Modin had been mostly inhabited by people of the priestly class, thus it was considered a ritually pure site, whose clay was suitable for making pottery that could be used in the Third Temple. The Reconstruction Alliance set up a pottery works there, which met the approval of Shlomo Kupferman, the Temple scholar who became Israel's Minister of Religious Affairs.