Yesodot

Yesodot (Hebrew: יְסוֹדוֹת, lit. Foundations) is a religious moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Nahal Sorek Regional Council. In 2018 it had a population of 913.[1]

Yesodot
Yesodot
Coordinates: 31°48′51.83″N 34°51′56.51″E
CountryIsrael
DistrictCentral
CouncilNahal Sorek
AffiliationPoalei Agudat Yisrael
Founded1948
Founded byHungarian and Polish immigrants
Population
 (2018)[1]
913

History

The village was established at a control point on the Burma Road in 1948 during the Arab–Israeli War on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Umm Kalkha.[2][3] The community had been established two years earlier by immigrants from Hungary and Poland.

References

  1. "Population in the Localities 2018" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 25 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  2. Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. xx. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
  3. Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 419, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
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