Ganei Am ( he, גני עם, גַּנֵּיעָם, ''lit.'' People Gardens) 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 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 in the

Sharon plain The Sharon plain ( ''HaSharon Arabic: سهل شارون Sahel Sharon'') is the central section of the Israeli coastal plain. The plain lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Samarian Hills, to the east. It stretches from Nahal ...

near

Hod HaSharon Hod HaSharon ( he, הוֹד הַשָּׁרוֹן, lit. "Splendor of the Sharon, Israel, Sharon plain") is a city in the Central District (Israel), Central District of Israel. The city is located approximately east of the Mediterranean coastline, s ...

and covering 350

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

Drom HaSharon Regional Council The Drom HaSharon Regional Council ( he, מוֹעָצָה אֲזוֹרִית דְּרוֹם הַשָׁרוֹן, translit. ''Mo'atza Azorit Drom HaSharon'', ''lit.'' Southern Sharon Regional Council) is a regional council in the Sharon region in c ...

. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was founded in 1932 by Jewish immigrants from

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

who were members of the

HaOved HaTzioni HaOved HaTzioni (, lit. ''The Zionist Worker'') is a settlement movement in Israel. The movement was established in 1936 by former members of HaNoar HaTzioni, and its first settlement, kibbutz Usha, was founded on 7 November 1937. In 1948 the ...

group. It is no longer agricultural, and is only a residential village.

References

{{Drom HaSharon Regional Council German-Jewish culture in Israel Moshavim Populated places established in 1932 Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1932 establishments in Mandatory Palestine