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Avigdor (Hebrew: אביגדור) a small moshav (communal agriculture settlement) in Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. It is situated south of Kiryat Maalachi and 11 km north of Kiryat Gat. Its jurisdiction is 3.75 km².
It was founded in 1950 by veterans of the British Army and in the beginning was name "Yael", the initials of Hebrew Units for Transportation, the unit that the veterans belonged to during the war. The commander of the unit was Henry, the son of Sir Osmond Elim d'Avigdor-Goldsmid. Later the name was changed and now it derives its name from the Zionist Sir Osmond Elim d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, an Englishman, president of the Jewish Colonization Association between the years 1934-1939 that donated to the moshav the municipality.[1]
The population of 430, are partly agriculturist that their main occupation is dairy farming, turkeys and chicken and various field crops and partly free profession (lawyer, accountant, engineer, etc.) In the last years there is a development and building momentum.
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- ^ (2005) Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel, Yuval Elʻazari (ed.), Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing, p. 14. ISBN 9657184347. (Hebrew)
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