Giv'ati

This article is about the moshav. For the IDF brigade, see Giv'ati Brigade.
Giv'ati
Giv'ati
Coordinates: 31°43′55.91″N 34°40′47.99″E / 31.7321972°N 34.6799972°E / 31.7321972; 34.6799972Coordinates: 31°43′55.91″N 34°40′47.99″E / 31.7321972°N 34.6799972°E / 31.7321972; 34.6799972
District Southern
Council Be'er Tuvia
Affiliation Moshavim Movement
Founded 1950
Founded by IDF veterans and immigrants from Egypt
Population (2015)[1] 955

Giv'ati (Hebrew: גִּבְעָתִי) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located near Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 955.

History

The moshav was founded by IDF veterans and Olim from Egypt on the ruins of the Arab village of Bayt Daras,[2] and was named after the Giv'ati Brigade of the IDF, which stopped the Egyptian Army from entering Israel from the south in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[3]

References

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  1. "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  2. Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 87, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
  3. Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval El'azari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 100. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
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