Editing Beit Shemesh (section)

===21st century===
[[File:Beit Shemesh - Condominiums 04.jpg|thumb|Apartment complexes in Beit Shemesh]]The [[Israel Police]] maintains a bomb disposal specialist unit and training center in Beit Shemesh.<ref>Omri Efraim. [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4125018,00.html Israel Police get 1st female sapper] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402100347/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4125018,00.html |date=2 April 2015 }}, Israel News, 20 September 2011.</ref>

The Nahala U'Menucha neighborhood, the Sheinfeld neighborhood, the Nofei Aviv neighborhood and the Migdal HaMayim neighborhood all began to be built in the early 1990s in Givat Sharret.  Ramat Beit Shemesh started to be built on hills immediately south of Givat Sharett in the late 1990s, doubling the size of the city. In 2017, the Israeli government approved a master plan to build 17,000 new housing units along with {{convert|53|ha}} zoned as new commercial space for businesses and hotels.<ref>
{{Cite web |url=http://hamodia.com/2017/04/03/netanyahu-beit-shemesh-will-double-size/ |title=Netanyahu: Beit Shemesh Will Double in Size - Hamodia Jewish and Israel News |access-date=12 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903140420/http://hamodia.com/2017/04/03/netanyahu-beit-shemesh-will-double-size/ |archive-date=3 September 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
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{{Cite web |url=http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-beit-shemesh-to-double-in-size-1001184442 |title=Globes English - Beit Shemesh to double in size |access-date=12 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511035833/http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-beit-shemesh-to-double-in-size-1001184442 |archive-date=11 May 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
</ref> It is expected that the city could be home to as many as 250,000 residents by 2025 and 350,000 by 2035. A new commercial center in the Ramat Beit Shemesh neighborhood is planned to be the city's largest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://real-invest.co.il/?p=3558|title=משקיעים? נפתחה הזדמנות לחנות משלכם במרכז הגרנדיוזי שנבנה ברמות בית שמש - Real-Invest|date=2 April 2017}}</ref> In 2020, the construction of a hospital in Beit Shemesh, which will be run as a branch of [[Hadassah Medical Center]], was approved.<ref name=hospital>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/health-science/hadassah-hospital-announces-plans-to-open-branch-in-beit-shemesh-614033|title=Hadassah Hospital announces plans to open branch in Beit Shemesh|website=The Jerusalem Post &#124; JPost.com|date=14 June 2020 }}</ref>