Neta'im ( he, נְטָעִים, ''lit.''
Plantation
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s), is a
moshav
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in central
Israel
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. Located in the
coastal plain around 4 kilometres south of
Rishon LeZion
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and covering 1,100
dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...
s, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The village was founded in 1932 by residents of other moshavim as part of the
Settlement of the Thousand plan.
Initially called Kfar HaVatikim (lit. ''Village of the Veterans''), it was later renamed Neta'im, a name taken from
1 Chronicles
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4:23:
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work.1 Chronicles Chapter 4
Mechon Mamre
References
{{Gan Raveh Regional Council
Moshavim
Populated places established in 1932
Populated places in Central District (Israel)
1932 establishments in Mandatory Palestine