Giv'ati
Giv'ati | |
|---|---|
| Country | Israel |
| District | Southern |
| Council | Be'er Tuvia |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Founded by | IDF veterans and immigrants from Egypt |
| Population (2022)[1] | 1,072 |
Giv'ati (Template:Lang-he-n) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located near Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 1,072.
History
The moshav was founded by IDF veterans and Olim from Egypt on the ruins of the Arab village of Bayt Daras,[2] and was named after the Giv'ati Brigade of the IDF, which stopped the Egyptian Army from entering Israel from the south in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[3]
References
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- ^ "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 87, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
- ^ Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval El'azari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 100. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
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