Nir Banim
| Nir Banim | |
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  Nir Banim | |
| Coordinates: 31°40′20.27″N 34°45′15.48″E / 31.6722972°N 34.7543000°ECoordinates: 31°40′20.27″N 34°45′15.48″E / 31.6722972°N 34.7543000°E | |
| District | Southern |
| Council | Be'er Tuvia |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | 1954 |
| Founded by | Sons from other moshavim |
| Population (2015)[1] | 705 |
Nir Banim (Hebrew: נִיר בָּנִים, lit. Sons' Meadow) is a moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 705.
History
The moshav was founded in 1954 by sons of residents of the moshavim of Be'er Tuvia, Kfar Vitkin, Kfar Yehezkel, Nahalal and Herut. This was also the source of its name.[2] It was established on land that had belonged to the depopulated Arab village of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya.[3]
Notable residents
References
- ↑ "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval Elʻazari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 35. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
- ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 135, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
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