Beit Hanan () is a

moshav A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...

in central

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. Located around two kilometers west of

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, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Gan Raveh Regional Council Gan Raveh Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Ezorit Gan Raveh'') is a regional council in the Central Coastal Plain region of the Central District of Israel. The council's area of jurisdiction extends to nine settlements: a kibbutz, six moshavim, a ...

. In its population was .

History

Beit Hanan founded during the

Hanukkah Hanukkah (, ; ''Ḥănukkā'' ) is a Jewish holidays, Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd ce ...

holiday of 1929 by

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ish

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from

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, Beit Hanan was the first Jewish agricultural community to be established after the

1929 Palestine riots The 1929 Palestine riots, Buraq Uprising (, ) or the Events of 1929 (, , ''lit.'' Events of 5689 Anno Mundi), was a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 in which a longstanding dispute between Palestinian Arabs and Jews ove ...

. The name is taken from the

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, specifically (1

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4:9).Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p. 110, According to a

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conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Beit Hanan had a population of 178 inhabitants, in 50 houses.Mills, 1932, p
18
/ref> Beit Hanan 1941

In 2007, Beit Hanan had of farmland. The main economic branches are eggs, orchards (pecan, citrus, avocado, mango, anona and olives) and greenhouses (flowers, vegetables and seedlings). The moshav also has banquet facilities on the grounds of a historic home. A

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-inscribed mosaic floor was discovered within the boundaries of the moshav. A rare species of red iris grows west of the moshav, in a wild flower

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stretching over .

Gallery

Beginning

File:PikiWiki Israel 2658 Surveying the land intended for settling Beit Hana סיור באדמות קובייבה.jpg, Surveying Kubeiba land intended for settling Beit Hanan, 1928 File:Beit-Hanan name-1.jpg, A document dealing with the name of Beit Hanan

Yishuv The Yishuv (), HaYishuv Ha'ivri (), or HaYishuv HaYehudi Be'Eretz Yisra'el () was the community of Jews residing in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 2 ...

, 25 February 1930 File:PikiWiki Israel 2623 Settlements in Israel קידוח הבאר הראשונה.jpg, Drilling of the first well, 1929-30 File:PikiWiki Israel 7014 Planting the first orchard in Beit-Hanan.jpg, Planting the first orchard, 1929-30 File:PikiWiki Israel 2609 Agriculture in Israel משתלת ההדרים הראשונה.jpg, Early 1930s first citrus nursery File:PikiWiki Israel 2653 Beit Hanan water tower על סולם בריכת בית הספר.jpg, Water tower ladder of the Beit Hanan school, 1935 File:בית חנן - מראה בית חנן.-JNF044353.jpeg, Beit Hanan 1935 File:בית חנן - פרדסים.-JNF044354.jpeg, Orchards, 1934 File:PikiWiki Israel 7018 Hityashvut Hill at Beit-Hanan.jpg, Settlement Hill in Beit Hanan, 1934-36 File:PikiWiki Israel 2615 Agriculture in Israel שתילת הפרדס הראשון.jpg, Planting the first orange grove of the family farm under the direction of Papa Avraham Menda, 1935-36 File:בית חנן - מראה כללי (פנורמה).-JNF044486.jpeg, Panorama, 1935 File:PikiWiki Israel 2655 Working at the cowshed עבודה ברפת.jpg, Isaac Menda working at the cowshed, 1935 File:PikiWiki Israel 2659 B בניית בתי ההתיישבות החדשה בבית חנן.jpg, Construction of the first permanent homes, 1935 File:PikiWiki Israel 2610 Israel Defense Forces קבוצת גדנעים.jpg, A Gadna group (paramilitary youth brigades) in training, 1940-45 File:PikiWiki Israel 2613 Agriculture in Israel זרמן מנדה בלול המטילות.jpg, Germain Manda in the family laying coop in the 1940s File:PikiWiki Israel 7016 Beit-Hanan youth group at Gan Rave gate.jpg, Beit-Hanan youth group at Gan Rave gate, 1940-43 File:PikiWiki Israel 7015 Family goat shed in Beit-Hanan.jpg, Family goat shed, 1946 File:PikiWiki Israel 2657 Plowing in Beit Hanan חריש בבית חנן.jpg, Using donkey for plowing, 1947 File:PikiWiki Israel 2612 Agriculture in Israel בנות המושב בזמן חגיגות הקציר.jpg, Beit Hanan girls during first harvest celebrations, 1951-52 File:PikiWiki Israel 2656 Beit Hanan drama group החוג הדרמטי של בית חנן.jpg, Beit Hanan drama group, 1952 File:PikiWiki Israel 2611 Agriculture in Israel תחרות קציר התבואה בבית-חנן.jpg, Harvest competition during the first harvest celebrations in the early 1950s File:PikiWiki Israel 2625 Shmuel (Sami) Mayer שמואל (סמי) מאיר.jpg, Sami Shmuel Mayer on his Holder tractor, 1957-58

Now

File:Beit Hanan Aerial View.jpg, Aerial View, 2012 File:PikiWiki Israel 7019 Beit-Hanan then and now.jpg, Beit-Hanan then (1933) and now (2007) File:PikiWiki Israel 7572 Gan-Rave.JPG, Founders Memorial at the entrance to Moshav File:כיכר המייסדים מושב בית חנן.JPG, Founders Square

References

External links

Official website
{{Gan Raveh Regional Council Bulgarian-Jewish culture in Israel Moshavim Populated places in Central District (Israel) Populated places established in 1929 1929 establishments in Mandatory Palestine