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Hevel Yavne Regional Council
Hevel Yavne Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית חבל יבנה, ''Mo'atza Azorit Hevel Yavneh'', ''lit.'' Yavne Region Regional Council) is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. History The Hevel Yavne Regional Council was formed in 1950. It covers 32,000 dunams and six religious communities. Two yeshivas - Yeshivat Kerem BeYavne and Yeshivat Neve Herzog are under its purview. It is bordered to the north by Yavne and Gan Raveh Regional Council; to the east by Gederot and Brenner Regional Councils; to the south by Be'er Tuvia Regional Council, and to the west by Ashdod. List of communities The council covers one kibbutz, four moshavim and two youth village A youth village ( he, כפר נוער, ''Kfar No'ar'') is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pionee ...s; External linksOfficial website {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Council (Israel)
Regional councils (plural: he, מוֹעָצוֹת אֵזוֹרִיּוֹת, ''Mo'atzot Ezoriyot''https://milog.co.il/מוֹעָצוֹת_אֵזוֹרִיּוֹת / singular: he, מוֹעָצָה אֵזוֹרִית, ''Mo'atza Ezorit'') are one of the three types of Israel's local government entities, with the other two being Municipality (Israel), cities and Local council (Israel), local councils. As of 2019, there were 54 regional councils, usually responsible for governing a number of settlements spread across rural areas. Regional councils include representation of anywhere between 3 and 54 communities, usually spread over a relatively large area within geographical vicinity of each other. Each community within a regional council usually does not exceed 2,000 in population and is managed by a Local committee (Israel), local committee. This committee sends representatives to the administering regional council proportionate to their size of membership and according to an index w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashdod
Ashdod ( he, ''ʾašdōḏ''; ar, أسدود or إسدود ''ʾisdūd'' or '' ʾasdūd'' ; Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤃𐤃 *''ʾašdūd'') is the sixth-largest city in Israel. Located in the country's Southern District, it lies on the Mediterranean coast south of Tel Aviv and north of Ashkelon. The historical town of Ashdod, c.6 km southeast of the center of the modern town, dates to the 17th century BCE, and was a prominent Philistine city, one of the five Philistine city-states. The coastal site of Ashdod-Yam, today southwest of the modern city, was a separate city for most of its history. Modern Ashdod was established in 1956 on the sand hills 6km northeast of the historical Ashdod, then known as Isdud, a Palestinian town which had been depopulated in 1948. It was incorporated as a city in 1968, with a land-area of approximately . Being a planned city, expansion followed a main development plan, which facilitated traffic and prevented air pollution in the residential areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hevel Yavne Regional Council
Hevel Yavne Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית חבל יבנה, ''Mo'atza Azorit Hevel Yavneh'', ''lit.'' Yavne Region Regional Council) is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. History The Hevel Yavne Regional Council was formed in 1950. It covers 32,000 dunams and six religious communities. Two yeshivas - Yeshivat Kerem BeYavne and Yeshivat Neve Herzog are under its purview. It is bordered to the north by Yavne and Gan Raveh Regional Council; to the east by Gederot and Brenner Regional Councils; to the south by Be'er Tuvia Regional Council, and to the west by Ashdod. List of communities The council covers one kibbutz, four moshavim and two youth village A youth village ( he, כפר נוער, ''Kfar No'ar'') is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pionee ...s; External linksOfficial website {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh
Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh ( he, ישיבת כרם ביבנה, lit. ''Vineyard in Yavne Yeshiva'') is a youth village and major yeshiva in southern Israel. Located near the city of Ashdod and adjacent to Kvutzat Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In , it had a population of . History Founded in 1954, Kerem BeYavneh was the first Yeshivat Hesder. The first Rosh Yeshiva of Kerem B'Yavneh was the renowned scholar Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht. Following his retirement, Goldvicht was succeeded by Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg, himself an alumnus of the yeshiva, and Rosh Kollel. In the summer zman of 5774, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Blachman was appointed to be the Associate Rosh Yeshiva to Rav Greenberg, shlita. The current Head of the Overseas Program is Rabbi David Zahtz Like all Yeshivot Hesder, Kerem B'Yavneh is a religious Zionist institution, advocating the position that the State of Israel is a concrete step forward in the coming of the final redempti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Givat Washington
Givat Washington ( he, גִבְעַת וָשִינְגְטוֹן, ''lit.'' Washington Hill), also known as Beit Raban ( he, בֵּית רַבָּן, lit. ''House of Raban'') is a religious youth village in central Israel. Located near Kvutzat Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1946 by the Jewish community of Washington D.C., and initially served as an educational establishment for young Holocaust survivors. It now has a secondary school, a midrasha, an ulpan and an academic college A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offerin .... There is also student housing for the college students, who make up most of the current residents. Education The Lycée français Guivat-Washing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Galim
Nir Galim ( he, נִיר גַּלִּים, ''lit.'' Waves Meadow) is a religious moshav shitufi in south-central Israel, adjacent to the city of Ashdod. Located in the southern coastal plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was established in 1949, on land which had belonged to the Palestinian village of Arab Suqrir, which was depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was initially called ''Nir VeGal'' ( he, ניר וגל, lit. ''Meadow and Wave''). The founders were Holocaust survivors from Hungary and Central Europe, including a set of twins who survived Josef Mengele's experiments. The Testimony House for the Heritage of the Holocaust was established on the moshav in 2009. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bnei Darom
Bnei Darom ( he, בְּנֵי דָּרוֹם, ''lit.'' Sons of the South) is a religious moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located near the Mediterranean coast, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Bnei Darom was established in 1949 by members of the gar'in group ''Netivot Kfar Darom'' who had been forced out of Kibbutz Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip when it was occupied by the Egyptian Army during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. They were joined by another gar'in group, ''Morasha'' from the United States, though most of its members were not prepared for the kibbutz-style life in a moshav shitufi and left, some of them to form Beit Hazon. Originally affiliated with Hapoel HaMizrachi, it joined the Religious Kibbutz Movement as a moshav shitufi in 2007. According to Walid Khalidi, Bnei Darom was founded on land belonging to Isdud. However, according to Andrew Petersen, it was on land belonging to the depopulated Palest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Zakai
Ben Zakai ( he, בֶּן זַכַּאי) is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was established in 1950 by Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, Jewish refugees from Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli (in modern Libya) on the lands of depopulated Arab village of Yibna, and was named after Yochanan ben Zakai. References {{Hevel Yavne Regional Council Moshavim Religious Israeli communities Populated places established in 1950 Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1950 establishments in Israel Libyan-Jewish culture in Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beit Gamliel
Beit Gamliel ( he, בֵּית גַּמְלִיאֵל, lit. ''House of Gamliel'') is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located south-east of Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In , it had a population of . History The moshav was established in 1949 by Holocaust survivors from Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and North Africa. Notable residents * Yehuda Barkan *Rachel Azaria *Matan Kahana Matan Kahana ( he, מַתָּן כַּהֲנָא, born 29 July 1972) is an Israeli politician who served as deputy Minister of Religious Services and as a member of Knesset for New Right and Yamina. He was an officer in the IDF with the rank o ... References External linksOfficial website {{Hevel Yavne Regional Council Czech-Jewish culture in Israel Hungarian-Jewish culture in Israel Moshavim North African-Jewish culture in Israel Slovak-Jewish culture in Israel Religious Israeli communities Populated places established in 1949 Populated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kvutzat Yavne
Kvutzat Yavne ( he, קְבוּצַת יַבְנֶה) is a religious kibbutz in the Central District of Israel. Located in the coastal plain just east of Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In it had a population of . The Kibbutz, is the location of Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh. History The idea of Kvutzat Yavne was conceived in Germany; and then originally called "Kvutzat Rodges". The intention of the founders was to make the area near ancient Yavne (from which it takes its name) the site of a religious kibbutz and a yeshiva. These founders, members of the Religious Zionist movement—specifically, the Association of Religious Pioneers (בח"ד ברית חלוצים דתיים) — began to prepare themselves for agricultural work on German farms in 1929. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youth Village
A youth village ( he, כפר נוער, ''Kfar No'ar'') is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pioneers in this sphere, known as youth aliyah, creating an educational facility that was a cross between a European boarding school and a kibbutz. History The first youth village was Mikve Israel. In the 1940s and 1950s, a period of mass immigration to Israel, youth villages were an important tool in immigrant absorption. Youth villages were established during this period by the Jewish Agency, WIZO, and Na'amat. After the establishment of Israel, the Israeli Ministry of Education took over the administration of these institutions, but not their ownership. The Hadassah Neurim Youth Village, founded by Akiva Yishai, was the first vocational school for Youth Aliyah children, who had been offered only agricultural training until then. From th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshav
A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1914, during what is known as the second wave of ''aliyah''. A resident or a member of a moshav can be called a "moshavnik" (). The moshavim are similar to kibbutzim with an emphasis on community labour. They were designed as part of the Zionist state-building programme following the green revolution Yishuv ("settlement") in the British Mandate of Palestine during the early 20th century, but in contrast to the collective farming kibbutzim, farms in a moshav tended to be individually owned but of fixed and equal size. Workers produced crops and other goods on their properties through individual or pooled labour with the profit and foodstuffs going to provide for themselves. Moshavim are governed by an elected council ( he, ועד, ''va'a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
