Ramot Meir

Ramot Meir
רָמוֹת מֵאִיר‬
Ramot Meir
Coordinates: 31°52′26.75″N 34°51′19.07″E / 31.8740972°N 34.8552972°E / 31.8740972; 34.8552972Coordinates: 31°52′26.75″N 34°51′19.07″E / 31.8740972°N 34.8552972°E / 31.8740972; 34.8552972
District Central
Council Gezer
Affiliation Moshavim Movement
Founded 1949
Founded by Demobilised soldiers
Population (2017)[1] 748
Website ramotmeir.co.il

Ramot Meir (Hebrew: רָמוֹת מֵאִיר‬, lit. Meir Heights) is a small moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah around four kilometres south of Rehovot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In 2017 it had a population of 748.[1]

History

The moshav was founded in 1949 by demobilised soldiers, and was named after the American philanthropist Meyer Rosoff. Rosoff had bought the land around the Palestinian village of al-Na'ani in the 1930s for his company, Rosoff Group Plantations.[2] After the 1948 war, it expanded on part of the remaining al-Na'ani land.[3]

It collapsed in 1965, but was re-established in 1969 by a group of immigrants from France (who had originally moved there from North Africa)

References

  1. 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Glass, J.B. (2002) From New Zion to Old Zion: American Jewish Immigration and Settlement Wayne State University Press, pp238-239, ISBN 0-8143-2842-3
  3. ↑ Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 400. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
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