Timorim

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Timorim
Founded 1948 (original location)
1954 (current location)
Region Central Israel
Council Be'er Tuvia Regional Council
Industries Agriculture
Affiliation HaOved HaTzioni
Website www.timorim.org

Timorim (Hebrew: תימורים‎, lit. Risings) is a village in central Israel which functions as a cross between a moshav and a communal settlement. Located on the Israeli coastal plain around a kilometer south of the Malakhi Junction, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 710.

It was established in 1948 by a Gar'in of youth from South Africa, Romania and Egypt as a kibbutz on Shimron Hill in the Lower Galilee, in the area now covered by the communal settlement of Timrat. In 1953 it was decided to become a moshav, one of the first in the country. In 1954 the settlement moved to its current location due to a shortage of land at its original site.[1]

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  1. ^ (2005) Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel, Yuval Elʻazari (ed.), Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing, p. 555. ISBN 9657184347.  (Hebrew)

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Coordinates: 31°42′55.07″N 34°45′36.36″E / 31.7152972, 34.7601

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