'Judah's Castle') is a national religious moshav in the Central District of Israel.
Located near Shoham, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council.
It belonged to the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod that encompassed the area of the present-day city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El'ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west.
It was named after the nearby depopulated Palestinian village of al-Tira on which land it was located,[3] and the fact that it was in the vicinity of the border of the land of the Tribe of Judah.
In its first years, it was attacked several times by the Palestinian fedayeen, and was a designated border settlement until the 1967 Six-Day War.