Ben Zakai () is a religious

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 in the

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, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was established in 1950 by

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from

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(in modern

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) on the lands of depopulated Arab village of

Yibna Yibna (; ''Jabneh'' or ''Jabneel'' in Biblical times; ''Jamnia'' in Roman empire, Roman times; ''Lordship of Ibelin, Ibelin'' to the Crusades, Crusaders), or Tel Yavne, is an archaeological site and List of villages depopulated during the Arab– ...

, and was named after

Yochanan ben Zakai Yohanan ben Zakkai (; 1st century CE), sometimes abbreviated as for Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, was a tanna, an important Jewish sage during the late Second Temple period during the transformative post-destruction era. He was a primary cont ...

.Hareuveni, Imanuel (2010).
Eretz Israel Lexicon
' (in Hebrew). Matach. p. 143.

References

{{Authority control Moshavim Religious Israeli communities Populated places established in 1950 Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1950 establishments in Israel Libyan-Jewish culture in Israel