Bnei Re'em ( he, בְּנֵי רְאֵ"ם, ''lit.'' Sons of Re'em) is a religious

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. Located in the Shephelah, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Nahal Sorek Regional Council Nahal Sorek Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית נחל שורק, ''Mo'atza Azorit Nahal Sorek'') is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. The seat of the council is Yad Binyamin. The council is named for the Sorek str ...

. In it had a population of .

Etymology

The moshav is named for the

Gerrer Rebbe Ger (Yiddish: wikt:גער, גער, also Gur, adj. Gerrer) is a Hasidic Judaism in Poland, Polish Hasidic dynasty originating from the town of Góra Kalwaria, Poland, where it was founded by Yitzchak Meir Alter (1798–1866), known as the "Chiddus ...

, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter. "Re'em" is a Hebrew acronym.

History

Bnei Re'em was established in 1949 by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Jewish refugees from Yemen on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of

Al-Masmiyya al-Kabira Al-Masmiyya al-Kabira ( ar, المسمية الكبيرة) was a Palestinian people, Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine, Gaza Subdistrict, located northeast of Gaza City, Gaza. With a land area of 20,687 dunams, the ...

. Until a pump was installed that worked on an automated sabbath clock, an Arab family that lived in the area served as a

Sabbath Goy A ''Shabbos goy'', ''Shabbat goy'' or ''Shabbes goy'' ( yi, שבת גוי, ''shabbos goy''; he, גוי של שבת, ''goy shel shabbat''; plural ''Shabbos goyim'') is a non-Jew who is employed by Jews to perform certain types of work ('' melakha' ...

.Júlia Todolí Rosana Dolón (2008) ''Analysing Identities in Discourse'', John Benjamins Publishing Company, p102

References

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