🏃🏻‍♂️ Get Ready for the the Beit Shemesh Run 2025!
📍 Thursday 25th December 2025

3 tracks - open to everyone, of all ages!

2km: starts at 6:30pm
10km:  starts at 7pm
5km: starts at 7:20pm

The race starts at the soldiers memorial - the Andarta, opposite the Fire Station in old Beit Shemesh. You can see the route of the race in the map above.

⭕ Roads closed to traffic - The streets near the race will close from 4pm on Thursday.

Ben Gurion Blvd will be closed in both directions - from Ben Gurion (HaNasi) Square to the Globe Square on Ben Ze’ev Blvd.

Ben Ze’ev Blvd will be closed to traffic - from the Globe Square to Yitzhak Rabin Square, including the Rabin Blvd - Rashi section.

HaGefen Street will be closed in both directions - from the Seven Girls Memorial to Ben Gurion Blvd.

No exit from Rashi Street to Ben Ze’ev Blvd.

No exit from Yitzhak Rabin Street to Ben Ze’ev Blvd.

No exit from David Raziel Street to Ben Ze’ev Blvd.

🕓 Closure times

Ben Gurion Blvd, from the Fire Station to HaGefen Street, will be closed from 4pm. to 9:30pm.

All other routes will be closed from 5pm to 9:30pm.

✅ Entry to the city from Road 38 via Ben Ze’ev Blvd will remain open up to HaDekel Blvd.

⛔ Note: NO parking on Ben Ze’ev Blvd, Ben Gurion Blvd, and HaEla Street (except for residents of the street) on Thursday, 25th December - from 10am until the end of the race.

🚌 To enable people to get to the race, there will be a shuttle service from Big, from the bus stop across from the train station, from 4pm until 6:30pm. Likewise, there will be return shuttles from the race to Big from 9 to 10pm.