Sde Uziyahu

Sde Uziyahu
Sde Uziyahu
Coordinates: 31°45′22.18″N 34°40′37.29″E / 31.7561611°N 34.6770250°ECoordinates: 31°45′22.18″N 34°40′37.29″E / 31.7561611°N 34.6770250°E
District	Southern
Council	Be'er Tuvia
Affiliation	HaOved HaTzioni
Founded	1950
Founded by	Libyan immigrants
Population (2015)[1]	1,465

Sde Uziyahu (Hebrew: שְׂדֵה עוֹזִיָּהוּ‎, lit. Uzziah Field) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located near the city of Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 1,465.

History

Sde Uziyahu was founded in 1950 by Jewish refugees expelled from Libya. Originally named Ashdod D, Yad Shimshon and Uziyah, it was finally named after Uzziah of Judah (Uziyahu in Hebrew), who, according to the Bible, built cities in the current location of the moshav.^[2]

References

1. "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
2. Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval Elʻazari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 525. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.