Brenner Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Brenner''; ), is a
regional council in the
Central District of Israel. It is located in the westernmost portion of the
Shephelah, in the vicinity of
Rehovot and
Yavne. The council is named after writer
Yosef Haim Brenner, killed in the
Jaffa riots of 1921.
The Council was established in 1950, with a jurisdiction of 36,000
dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...
s. As of 2007, the six communities in the council (two
kibbutz
A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...
im and four
moshavim) are home to approximately 6,000 inhabitants.
Settlements
External links
Official website
Regional councils in Israel
Central District (Israel)
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