Gan Yoshiya ( he, גַּן יֹאשִׁיָּה, lit. ''Josiah's Garden'') is a
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 an ...
in central
Israel. Located near the
Green Line
Green Line may refer to:
Places Military and political
* Green Line (France), the German occupation line in France during World War II
* Green Line (Israel), the 1949 armistice line established between Israel and its neighbours
** City Line ( ...
in the
Tulkarm area, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Hefer Valley Regional Council
The Hefer Valley Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית עמק חפר, ''Mo'atza Azorit Emek Hefer'') is a regional council in the Hefer Valley region of the Sharon plain in central Israel. It is named after an administrative district in ...
. In it had a population of .
History
The moshav was founded on 6 December 1949 on the land of the depopulated
Palestinian village of
Qaqun
Qaqun ( ar, قاقون) was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Tulkarm at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain.
Evidence of organized settlement in Qaqun dates back to the period of Assyr ...
by
demobilised Palmach
The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Companies") was the elite fighting force of the Haganah, the underground army of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine. The Palmach ...
soldiers and
Jewish immigrants from
Romania. It was initially named Nahal Reuven after
Nabi Rubin, before being later renamed in honour of
Josiah Wedgwood.
Gan Yoshiya
Hefer Valley Regional Council
References
External links
Official website
{{Hefer Valley Regional Council
Moshavim
Populated places established in 1949
Populated places in Central District (Israel)
Romanian-Jewish culture in Israel
1949 establishments in Israel