Gat Rimon

Gat Rimon (Hebrew: גַּת רִמּוֹן, lit. Pomegranate press) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Ono Valley in the Sharon plain between Ganei Tikva and Petah Tikva, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2018 it had a population of 312.[1]

Gat Rimon

גַּת רִמּוֹן
Gat Rimon
Coordinates: 32°4′3.72″N 34°52′49.07″E
CountryIsrael
DistrictCentral
CouncilDrom HaSharon
Founded1926
Founded byWorkers from Petah Tikva
Population
 (2018)[1]
312

History

The moshav was founded in 1926 by workers from Petah Tikva who were children of middle class immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah. It was initially called HaTehiya (Hebrew: התחייה‎, lit. Revival), but later took the Biblical name of Gat Rimmon, a Levite town in the land of the Tribe of Dan which is mentioned in Joshua 19:45. The Biblical town is "identified with Tel Gerisa"[2] near the Yarkon river in the north of Tel Aviv by the archaeologist Benjamin Mazar. According to the 1931 census Gat Rimon had a population of 142 Jews, in 30 houses.[3]

References
  1. "Population in the Localities 2018" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 25 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  2. Negev, Avraham/Gibson, Shimon, Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land, New York/London 2001, p.191, ISBN 0-8264-1316-1 (English)
  3. Mills, 1932, p. 13
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