Or HaNer

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Or HaNer
Or HaNer
Coordinates: 31°33′27″N 34°36′7.19″E / 31.55750°N 34.6019972°E / 31.55750; 34.6019972Coordinates: 31°33′27″N 34°36′7.19″E / 31.55750°N 34.6019972°E / 31.55750; 34.6019972
Council Sha'ar HaNegev
Region Northern Negev
Affiliation Kibbutz Movement
Founded 1957
Founded by Former Giv'ot Zaid residents and Argentine immigrants
Population (2012) 612[1]

Or HaNer (Hebrew: אוֹר הַנֵּר, lit. Light of the Candle) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located near Sderot, it fall under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. Its name is taken from the Sanhedrin tractate of the Babylonian Talmud.[2]

The village was established in 1955–57 as a farm belonging to the Yitzur UFitu'ah company. The founders were from the gar'in of the Gordoniya, Dror and HeHalutz movements, most of whom were immigrants from Argentina and Chile. Many of them originally came from the kibbutz Giv'ot Zaid.[2]

The village is founded on the land belonging to the depopulated Arab Palestinian village of Najd, northeast of the Najd village site.[3]

In 2012 it had a population of 612.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Locality File" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2013. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 HaReuveni, Immanuel (1999). Lexicon of the Land of Israel. Miskal Yedioth Ahronoth Books. p. 23. ISBN 965-448-413-7.  (Hebrew)
  3. Khalidi, 1992, All That Remains, p. 128.
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