Yesodot

Yesodot
Yesodot
Coordinates: 31°48′51.83″N 34°51′56.51″E / 31.8143972°N 34.8656972°ECoordinates: 31°48′51.83″N 34°51′56.51″E / 31.8143972°N 34.8656972°E
District	Central
Council	Nahal Sorek
Affiliation	Poalei Agudat Yisrael
Founded	1948
Founded by	Hungarian and Polish immigrants
Population (2015)[1]	907

Yesodot (Hebrew: יְסוֹדוֹת‎, lit. Foundations) is a religious moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Nahal Sorek Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 907.

History

The village was established at a control point on the Burma Road in 1948 during the Arab–Israeli War on land that had belonged to the depopulated Arab village of Umm Kalkha.^[2][3] The community had been established two years earlier by immigrants from Hungary and Poland.

References

1. "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
2. Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. p. xx. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
3. Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 419, ISBN 0-88728-224-5