Gat () is a

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 ...

in southern

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. Located near

Kiryat Gat Kiryat Gat () also spelled Qiryat Gat, is a city in the Southern District of Israel. It lies south of Tel Aviv, north of Beersheba, and west southwest of Jerusalem. In it had a population of . The city hosts one of the most advanced semicondu ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Yoav Regional Council Yoav Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Yoav'') is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel. It is located near the cities of Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon. It was founded in 1952, covering an area of 230,000 dunams (23 ...

. In it had a population of .

History

Kibbutz Gat was founded in 1941 by Jewish immigrants from

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and

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. In 1949, after the inhabitants of the nearby

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

village of

Iraq al-Manshiyya Iraq al-Manshiyya () was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village located 32 km northeast of Gaza City. The village contained two mosques and a Mazar (mausoleum), shrine for Shaykh Ahmad al-Arayni. It was depopulated after the 1948 Arab ...

had been expelled, some of their lands were transferred to Kibbutz Gat. Primor, one of Israel's largest juice manufacturers, is operated by the kibbutz. Citramed, another company located in Kibbutz Gat, has developed a method to squeeze out the antibacterial properties in the rind of citrus fruit for use as a natural preservative in health products and the food industry.Citramed's citrus extract
Ministry of Foreign Affairs The name is derived from the

Philistine Philistines (; Septuagint, LXX: ; ) were ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia. There is compelling evidence to suggest that the Philist ...

town Gath, which at the time the kibbutz was founded was identified with the nearby site of

Tel Erani Tel Erani () or Tell esh-Sheikh Ahmed el-ʿAreini () is a multi-period archaeological site on the outskirts of Kiryat Gat in the Southern District of Israel. It is also known by the name '' ʻIrâq el-Menshiyeh'' ("vein-like sand ridges of Mensh ...

. The town of

(lit. Gath City) was named for the same reason. However, most scholars now consider

Tell es-Safi Tell es-Safi (, "White hill"; , ''Tel Tzafit'') was an Arab Palestinian village, located in the Shephelah region on the southern banks of Wadi 'Ajjur, northwest of Hebron, which had its Arab population expelled during the 1948 Arab–Israeli w ...

, thirteen kilometres to the northeast, a more likely candidate. File:גת - מראה כללי-JNF040406.jpeg, Gat 1945 File:PikiWiki Israel 706 Gat סלילת מדרכה ראשונה.jpg, Building the kibbutz

Notable people

Yossi Dina Yossi Dina (Hebrew: יוסי דינה; born August 21, 1954) is an Israeli pawnbroker, businessman, entrepreneur, and reality television personality. Biography Yossi Dina, the entrepreneur and TV personality, was born in Israel on August 21, 19 ...

References

External links

Official website
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