Bnei Dror ( he, בְּנֵי דְּרוֹר, ''lit.'' Sons of Liberty) is a
moshav shitufi in central
Israel. Located near
Netanya
Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate I ...
and covering 3,200
dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...
s, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The village was founded on 12 May 1946 by
demobilised Jewish soldiers from the
British Army who had fought in
North Africa and
Italy during
World War II and had first had the idea of establishing a moshav in 1941. Its name symbolises the founders' desire to live a free life.
Residents work in agriculture and factories for furniture, sunglasses and packaging, as well as a shopping centre, regional school and pensioners' home.
References
External links
Village website
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{{Lev HaSharon Regional Council
Moshavim
Populated places established in 1946
Jewish villages in Mandatory Palestine
Populated places in Central District (Israel)
1946 establishments in Mandatory Palestine