Yad Natan

Yad Natan
יַד נָתָן
Yad Natan
Coordinates: 31°39′21″N 34°42′15″E / 31.65583°N 34.70417°ECoordinates: 31°39′21″N 34°42′15″E / 31.65583°N 34.70417°E
District Southern
Council Lakhish
Region Hevel Lakhish
Founded 1953
Founded by HaNoar HaTzioni
Name meaning Natan Memorial

Yad Natan (Hebrew: יַד נָתָן, lit. Memorial for Natan) is a moshav in southern Israel in Hevel Lakhish, near the town of Kiryat Gat. It is part of the Lakhish Regional Council. The moshav was founded in 1953 by Jewish immigrants from the Hungarian youth movement HaNoar HaTzioni as part of the effort to settle the region. It was named after Ottó Komoly (his Hebrew birth name was Natan Kohn), a leader of the Zionist movement in Hungary, who was murdered in 1945, apparently for anti-Semitic reasons.