Beit Dagan
Template:Infobox Israel municipality Beit Dagan (Template:Lang-he-n, lit. "House of Grain") is a town and local council in the Central District of Israel. Located adjacent to Rishon LeZion, it had a population of 7,823 in 2022.
History
Beit Dagan was founded in 1948 at the site of the Arab village Bayt Dajan by Yemenite and North African immigrants. It is probably situated in the area of Biblical Beit Dagon,[1] a village in the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:41).
It was declared a local council in 1958.
Geography
Beit Dagan's central neighborhood is Neve Hadarim. Other neighborhoods are Neve Ganim, Bnei Bitkha and Nekudat Hen.
Climate
Beit Dagan is the home of the Israel Meteorological Service and used as a central focus of weather data.
Beit Dagan has a Mediterranean climate with hot and rainless summers, and with cold and rainy winters. Springs and autumns are cool to warm. Humidity is high during winter and low during summer, which makes summers rainless and hot, between average high of 30.8 °C (87.4 °F) and average low of 20.4 °C (68.7 °F). Winters are rainy and mild, between average high of 18.5 °C (65.3 °F) and average low of 7.6 °C (45.7 °F). Beit Dagan receives 550.5 mm (21.7 in) of precipitation per year and there are only 7 months of heavy rain.
| Climate data for Beit Dagan | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 17.8 (64.0) |
18.1 (64.6) |
20.1 (68.2) |
24.5 (76.1) |
27 (81) |
29.2 (84.6) |
30.8 (87.4) |
31.2 (88.2) |
30.4 (86.7) |
28.3 (82.9) |
24.1 (75.4) |
19.7 (67.5) |
25.1 (77.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 7.2 (45.0) |
7.1 (44.8) |
8.8 (47.8) |
11.5 (52.7) |
14.6 (58.3) |
17.9 (64.2) |
20.6 (69.1) |
21.2 (70.2) |
19.4 (66.9) |
16 (61) |
11.8 (53.2) |
8.6 (47.5) |
13.7 (56.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 140.5 (5.53) |
96.9 (3.81) |
66.1 (2.60) |
17.5 (0.69) |
2.2 (0.09) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0.4 (0.02) |
20.4 (0.80) |
76.2 (3.00) |
130.3 (5.13) |
550.5 (21.67) |
| Source: Israel Meteorological Service[2] | |||||||||||||
Gallery
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War memorial in Beit Dagan -
JNF house near Beit Dagan -
Transportation
Beit Dagan's main transportation hub is the Beit Dagan Junction (actually located in Rishon LeZion), between highway 44 and route 412, serving as a bus terminal for lines to Rishon LeZion, Tzrifin, Ashkelon, Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Rehovot, etc.
The large Shapirim Interchange (intersection of Highway 1 and Route 412) is located on the eastern side of town.
References
- ^ "Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.108, ISBN 965-220-186-3 (English), Place Names in Israel. A Compendium of Place Names in Israel compiled from various sources. Translated from Hebrew, Jerusalem 1962 (Israel Prime Minister's Office. The Israeli Program for Scientific Translations) p.22 - Location of the book: Ben Zvi Institute Library, 12 Abarbanel St., Jerusalem; in the online-catalogue - Yizhaqi, Arie (ed.): Madrich Israel (Israel Guide: An Encyclopedia for the Study of the Land), Vol 11: Appendices, Jerusalem 1980, Keter Press, p.75 (Hebrew)". Ybz.org.il. Retrieved 2013-07-29.
- ^ "Climate data for several places in Israel" (in Hebrew). Israel Meteorological Service.
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