Nir Galim ( he, נִיר גַּלִּים, ''lit.'' Waves Meadow) is a religious

moshav shitufi A moshav shitufi ( he, מושב שיתופי, lit. ''collective moshav'', pl. ''moshavim shitufiim'') is a type of cooperative Israeli village, whose organizational principles place it between the kibbutz and the moshav on the scale of cooperation ...

in south-central

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, adjacent to the city of

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 ...

. Located in the southern

coastal plain A coastal plain is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast. A fall line commonly marks the border between a coastal plain and a piedmont area. Some of the largest coastal plains are in Alaska and the southeastern United States. The Gulf Coa ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

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 ...

. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was established in 1949, on land which had belonged to the

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

village of Arab Suqrir, which was depopulated in the

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...

. It was initially called ''Nir VeGal'' ( he, ניר וגל, lit. ''Meadow and Wave''). The founders were

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

survivors from

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and

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, including a set of twins who survived

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's experiments. The Testimony House for the Heritage of the Holocaust was established on the moshav in 2009.Bnei Akiva celebrates museum's recognition of its pre-state work in UK
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Notable residents

Ofir Ben Shitrit Ofir Ben Shitrit ( he, אופיר בן שטרית; born 20 December 1995) is an Israeli Orthodox Jewish singer. She came to prominence in 2013 as a contestant on the reality singing competition ''The Voice Israel''. She received additional media a ...

, Orthodox Jewish singer

References

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