Yakhini ( he, יָכִינִי) is an
Orthodox 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 southern
Israel. Located in the northern
Negev desert near the town of
Sderot, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The moshav was founded in 1950 by
Jewish immigrants from
Yemen, who were brought to Israel during
Operation Magic Carpet
Operation Magic Carpet was the post- World War II operation by the War Shipping Administration to repatriate over eight million American military personnel from the European, Pacific, and Asian theaters. Hundreds of Liberty ships, Victory s ...
, when most
Yemenite Jews arrived in the country. The moshav is named for one of the sons of
Simeon, son of the patriarch
Jacob, as it is located in territory that belonged to the
Tribe of Simeon in
biblical
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...
times (Numbers 26:12).)
Yakhini was founded on the lands of the depopulated
Palestinian village of
Al-Muharraqa
Al-Muharraqa ( ar, المحرّقة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located east of Gaza city. The village laid on rolling terrain on the southern coastal plain of Palestine, on a bend in the ''wadi''. It had an elevat ...
.
References
{{Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council
Moshavim
Populated places established in 1950
Religious Israeli communities
Gaza envelope
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
Yemeni-Jewish culture in Israel
1950 establishments in Israel