Bnei Ayish () is a town and
local council in the
Central District of
Israel
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. Located around ten kilometers from
Ashdod
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and adjacent to
Gedera
Gedera, or less commonly known as Gdera (), is a town in the southern part of the Shfela region in the Central District of Israel founded in 1884. It is south of Rehovot.
In , it had a population of .
History
Gedera is in the Book of C ...
, it had a population of in .
History
The town was founded in 1957. Before 1948, the area had served as a military base for
British Army
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troops during the
Mandate era. It was named after
Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlezinger, whose name is abbreviated to Ayish.
Bnei Ayish originally served as a transit camp for
immigrants
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from
Yemen
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in the early 1950s. Today its population is almost entirely made up of Jews of Yemenite descent and immigrants from the former
Soviet Union
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.
References
External links
Local council website*
Local councils in Central District (Israel)
Populated places established in 1957
1957 establishments in Israel
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