Giv'at Ko'ah ( he, גִּבְעַת כֹּ"חַ, ''lit.'' Hill of the Twenty Eight or Strength Hill) 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 to the south of

Petah Tikva Petah Tikva ( he, פֶּתַח תִּקְוָה, , ), also known as ''Em HaMoshavot'' (), is a city in the Central District (Israel), Central District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv. It was founded in 1878, mainly by Haredi Judaism, Haredi Jews of ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Hevel Modi'in Regional Council Hevel Modi'in Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית חבל מודיעין, ''Mo'atza Azorit Hevel Modi'in'', ''lit.'' Modi'in Region Regional Council) is a regional council in central Israel. It was founded in 1950 and covers an area fro ...

. In it had a population of .

History

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the area around Giv'at Ko'ah belonged to the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod that encompassed the area of the present-day city of

Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut ( he, מוֹדִיעִין-מַכַּבִּים-רֵעוּת) is an Israeli city located in central Israel, about southeast of Tel Aviv and west of Jerusalem, and is connected to those two cities via Highway 443. In t ...

in the south to the present-day city of

El'ad El'ad, also spelled Elad ( he, אלעד), is a city in the Central District of Israel. In the 1990s, it was built for a Haredi Jewish population and to a lesser extent, it was also built for a Religious Zionist Jewish population. Located about ...

in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of

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in the west. This area was home to thousands of inhabitants in about 20 villages, who had at their disposal tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land. The village was founded on 2 July 1950 by

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from

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. It was named for the 28 soldiers (כ"ח is the

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for 28) from the

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who died in fighting at

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during the

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. A monument to these soldiers is located on a hill about 3 km east of the village. Giv'at Ko'ah, along with

Tirat Yehuda Tirat Yehuda ( he, טִירַת יְהוּדָה, ''lit.'' Judah's Castle) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Yehud and Ben Gurion International Airport, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In it had a p ...

and

Bareket Bareket ( he, בַּרֶקֶת, , Emerald) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah around five kilometres north-east of Ben Gurion International Airport and covering 2,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'i ...

, is located near the former Palestinian village of village of al-Tira, which was destroyed during the

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. Giv'at Ko'ah was also home to a group of

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who emigrated from the village of

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. In 2010, the Nehemiah Mott Synagogue was built in Giv'at Ko'ah, named after a Yemenite kabbalist revered by this community.

References

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