Ben Zakai ( he, בֶּן זַכַּאי) is a religious

moshav A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 an ...

in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Hevel Yavne Regional Council Hevel Yavne Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית חבל יבנה, ''Mo'atza Azorit Hevel Yavneh'', ''lit.'' Yavne Region Regional Council) is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. History The Hevel Yavne Regional Counci ...

. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was established in 1950 by Jewish refugees from

Tripoli Tripoli or Tripolis may refer to: Cities and other geographic units Greece *Tripoli, Greece, the capital of Arcadia, Greece * Tripolis (region of Arcadia), a district in ancient Arcadia, Greece * Tripolis (Larisaia), an ancient Greek city in ...

(in modern Libya) on the lands of depopulated Arab village of Yibna, and was named after

Yochanan ben Zakai :''See Yohanan for more rabbis by this name''. Yohanan ben Zakkai ( he, יוֹחָנָן בֶּן זַכַּאי, ''Yōḥānān ben Zakkaʾy''; 1st century CE), sometimes abbreviated as Ribaz () for Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, was one of the Tan ...

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