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 Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

. The council's area of jurisdiction extends to nine settlements: a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...

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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 ...

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community settlement A community settlement (, ''Yishuv Kehilati'') is a type of town or village in Israel and in the West Bank. In an ordinary town, anyone may buy property, but in a community settlement, the village's residents are organized in a cooperative an ...

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youth village A youth village () is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pioneers in this sphere, known as youth ...

. In 2017 the total population was 6,026. The council serves

Ayanot Ayanot () is a youth village in central Israel. Located near Ness Ziona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology The village was named after the numerous springs in the area, though o ...

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Ge'alya Ge'alya, sometimes written Galia (), is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was founde ...

Gan Sorek Gan Sorek () is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain, approximately four kilometres southwest of Rishon LeZion and covering 700 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of ...

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Kfar HaNagid Kfar HaNagid () is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain around 20 km south of Tel Aviv and north of Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav wa ...

Neta'im Neta'im (, ''lit.'' Plantations), is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain around 4 kilometres south of Rishon LeZion and covering 1,100 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a popul ...

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Palmachim Palmachim () is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located about ten kilometers south of the Gush Dan, Tel Aviv area along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, among the sand dunes, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it h ...

. 'Gan Raveh' means ''well-watered garden'' and these are words in a biblical verse of Isaiah,Isaiah 58:11: "You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail." which are reproduced on the signs of some of the council's villages, including Ayanot. The head of the local council is Mira Ben Ari. The council's headquarters are located in the

References

External links

Official website
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