Taxi from Herzliya to Ben Gurion Airport

Almaxpress Taxi runs this route in both directions, 24 hours a day from Sunday to Friday. Most people reading this page in English arrive long before they ever depart, so here is the part visitors worry about first: a taxi from Herzliya to Ben Gurion Airport is not a price you negotiate at the curb. It comes off Israel's official meter tariff — from ₪200 by day in a regular taxi for up to four passengers — and the calculator here produces that figure weeks before anyone opens a car door.

Arrivals: someone inside the building, holding your name

The leg into Herzliya is the one most visitors book first. It covers about 35 km in roughly 32 minutes and starts at ₪190, and the ₪5 airport departure surcharge is already counted inside that figure rather than added at the end. Send the flight number with the booking and the pickup follows the aircraft, not the timetable it was meant to keep. A party too large for four seats and their cases travels in a large taxi, van or minibus, and we confirm that price within minutes of hearing the headcount. Our guide to airport pickup and flight delays goes further, and the taxi from Ben Gurion Airport page covers the other towns we drive to from the terminal.

From the arrivals doors to the car

• You walk out into the arrivals hall — Terminal 3 for almost every flight, Terminal 1 for a few low-cost ones — and the flight number you sent told us where to stand.
• Your driver is holding a sign with your name, takes the heavier cases and walks you to the car; there is no rank to join and nothing to agree.
• Children off a night flight get into a seat or booster fitted before we set off, as long as we were told their ages.
• The meter is already on the tariff for the hour you landed, and you settle in shekels by the method you chose when booking.

Flying out: you choose the hour, we choose the road

In the other direction the trip runs about 36 km and roughly 34 minutes when the roads behave. Which way the driver goes is not yours to solve: traffic through the Sharon shifts by the half-hour, and the person at the wheel decides on the day — Route 2 to Route 20 and Route 1, or east on Route 5 and down the Route 6 toll road when the Ayalon is stacked. The hour is yours. Fix it backwards from the queue at the bag drop rather than forwards from the departure time printed on the ticket, name it when you book, and the car is standing outside before it. When to leave for an early or late flight from Ben Gurion works the arithmetic through.

Landing after dark

A flight that touches down close to midnight arrives into a different tariff from one that lands at lunchtime. Between 21:01 and 05:59 the meter is on tariff 2, so the ride into Herzliya begins at ₪220 instead of ₪190. Nothing else about the night changes: the same hall, the same sign, the same walk to the car, and an emptier road that holds the trip closer to its 32 minutes than the afternoon ever does. Israel's week does stop for a full day, though, which catches almost every first-time visitor — taking a taxi in Israel as a tourist is worth ten minutes before you book.

Plans made from another country move around more than plans made at home: a connection is missed, a meeting slides, a family decides on two more nights by the sea. A message to Almaxpress Taxi on +972-50-912-2133 is enough to shift a pickup, and it reaches us from a lounge in Europe as easily as from a hotel in Herzliya Pituach. Someone else can book for you too — a colleague, a company travel desk — provided the passenger's name and a number that reaches them are on it. Our 2026 taxi price list holds every tariff the meter can charge, and almaxpress.taxi@gmail.com reaches the same desk when messaging does not suit you.