Aseret ( he, עֲשֶׂרֶת) is a

community settlement A community settlement ( he, יישוב קהילתי, ''Yishuv Kehilati'') is a type of village in Israel and the West Bank. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the village's residents are organized in ...

on the coastal plain of south-central

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. Located near Gedera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council. It was founded in 1954 on the ruins of the depopulated Palestinian village of Bashshit. The word "Aseret" means ten, and the community is named after the ten members of

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who founded Gedera. In its population was .

History

Historical map series for the area of Bashshit (1940s with modern overlay)

Aseret was founded in 1954 as the municipal center of Gederot Regional Council. It continues to serve this function today. Aseret is the center, both geographically and municipally, of the other six communities in the council: Meishar,

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, Kfar Mordechai, Shdema and

Gan HaDarom Gan HaDarom ( he, גַּן הַדָּרוֹם, ''lit.'' Garden of the South) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located on the Israeli coastal plain, coastal plain near Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council. In it had ...

. Aseret was built on the lands of Bashshit, a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

village depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. There is an old tomb associated with Seth, the son of Adam in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
'' According to scholars of the Palestine Exploration Fund, the name Bashshit was derived from ''Beit Shit'', meaning the "house of Seth. Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF), 1838
p. 84
The tomb lies within a triple-domed mosque located on the side of a hill.

References

{{Gederot Community settlements Populated places in Central District (Israel) Populated places established in 1954 1954 establishments in Israel