Lapid (Community Settlement)

Lapid is situated in the Judean Lowland and falls under the jurisdiction of the Hevel Modi'in Regional Council.[1][3] The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics assigns it locality code 1310 and places it within the Central District, Ramla subdistrict.[3] Its inclusion in the 2022 national census is confirmed in an official CBS localities file associating Lapid with regional council code 25, corresponding to Hevel Modi'in.[4]

The locality's central grid reference is recorded as 2032076471 in the CBS alphabetical locality file.[2] Reference sources classify Lapid differently: Encyclopedia.com places it in the Judean Lowland within a table covering places of Jewish habitation in Israel and the administered territories,[1] while the Jewish Virtual Library lists it within a table of Jewish settlements in the West Bank — known by its original, indigenous Jewish name of Judea and Samaria.[5] The 2022 CBS locality file assigns Lapid to the Central District under Israeli domestic administrative categories.[3]

Lapid was established in 1996.[3][2] The CBS alphabetical locality file records 1996 as the year of Jewish settlement, and the same founding year appears in both the Encyclopedia.com settlement table and the Jewish Virtual Library's population table.[5][1]

The Encyclopedia.com table classifies Lapid as an "Urban Settlement."[1]

Published population figures for Lapid vary by reporting year and source. As of 31 December 2004, Encyclopedia.com recorded 2,228 inhabitants.[1] In 2009, the Jewish Virtual Library listed 2,431 residents.[5] The CBS alphabetical locality file records 2,001 residents as of December 31 of its reporting year.[2] The 2022 CBS locality file records a total population of 2,325 in the "Jews and others" category, including 2,307 Jews, and lists no Arab residents.[3]

The 2023 Israeli government election data file identifies three polling stations in Lapid, with registered-population figures of 692, 704, and 896, a combined 2,292.[6] It separately lists 558, 578, and 705 registered voters at those stations.[6] The Jewish Virtual Library table, marked as current as of 1 January 2026, shows no population value for Lapid in its 2020–2025 columns; the page treats blank cells as missing values rather than zero.[5]

Mamlachti Lapid is a Hebrew-language Jewish school under Israel's state education system and the Hevel Modi'in Regional Council in the Central District.[7] The school is classified as part of the Jewish education sector and is supervised through the state system.[7]