Nahala, Israel

This article is about the moshav in Israel. For the region in Iraq, see Nahla, Iraq.
Areal view of Nahala

Nahala (Hebrew: נַחֲלָה, lit. Estate) is a moshav in south-central Israel, a few kilometers north of Kiryat Gat and south of Kiryat Malakhi. It belongs to the Yoav Regional Council.

The community was founded in 1953 by immigrants to Israel from Yemen, but today contains a mixed population.

This community, along with the neighboring Menuha, are named for the Menuha VeNahala (Hebrew: מנוחה ונחלה‎) organization that founded Rehovot.

It was founded on land belonging to the Palestinian village of Summeil, which was depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.[1]

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  1. ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 137, ISBN 0-88728-224-5

Coordinates: 31°39′33.11″N 34°47′39.11″E / 31.6591972°N 34.7941972°E / 31.6591972; 34.7941972

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