Gederot Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית גדרות, ''Mo'atza Azorit Gderot'') is a

regional council Regional Council may refer to: * Regional Council (Hong Kong), disbanded in 1999 ** Regional Council (constituency) Regional council may refer to: * Regional council (Cameroon) * Regional council (France), the elected assembly of a region of Fra ...

in the Central District of Israel. It is located between

Ashdod Ashdod ( he, ''ʾašdōḏ''; ar, أسدود or إسدود ''ʾisdūd'' or '' ʾasdūd'' ; Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤃𐤃 *''ʾašdūd'') is the sixth-largest city in Israel. Located in the country's Southern District, it lies on the Mediterran ...

, Yavne and

Gedera Gedera, or less commonly known as Gdera ( he, גְּדֵרָה), is a town in the southern part of the Shfela region in the Central District of Israel founded in 1884. It is south of Rehovot. In , it had a population of . History Gedera ...

and covers an area of 13,000

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. Founded in 1953, it was named after a biblical town in the allotment of the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:41)Official website of Gederot/source of name
(in Hebrew) Its population is 4,200. It borders on Brenner Regional Council to the north,

Hevel Yavne Regional Council Hevel Yavne Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית חבל יבנה, ''Mo'atza Azorit Hevel Yavneh'', ''lit.'' Yavne Region Regional Council) is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. History The Hevel Yavne Regional Counci ...

to the west, Be'er Tuvia Regional Council and

Gan Yavne Gan-Yavne () is a town in central Israel, located adjacent to the city of Ashdod. Gan Yavne was founded in 1931 and achieved local council status in 1950. It lies east of the Tel Aviv–Ashkelon highway, and is bordered to the west by Ashdod, ...

to the south, and the city of

to the east.

List of settlements

The council includes six

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 ...

im and one community settlement: *

Aseret Aseret ( he, עֲשֶׂרֶת) is a community settlement on the coastal plain of south-central Israel. Located near Gedera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council. It was founded in 1954 on the ruins of the depopulated Pal ...

(community settlement) * Gan HaDarom (moshav) * Kfar Aviv (moshav) *

Kfar Mordechai Kfar Mordechai ( he, כְּפַר מָרְדְּכַי) is a moshav in central Israel. Located about 30 kilometers south of Tel Aviv, between Ashdod, Gedera and Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council. In it had a popu ...

(moshav) *

Meishar Meishar ( he, מֵישָׁר) is a moshav in south-central Israel. Located in the Israeli coastal plain, coastal plain near Gedera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was ...

(moshav) * Misgav Dov (moshav) *

Shdema Shdema ( he, שְׁדֵמָה) is a moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Gedera in the coastal plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1954 to abs ...

(moshav)

References

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* {{Coord, 31, 48, N, 34, 42, E, source:kolossus-nlwiki, display=title Regional councils in Israel Central District (Israel)