Gat Rimon (, ''lit.''

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press) 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 in the Ono Valley in the Sharon plain between

Ganei Tikva Ganei Tikva () is a city in Israel bordering Kiryat Ono to the west, Petah Tikva to the north, Gat Rimon to the east and Savyon to the south. History Ganei Tikva was formed in 1949, located on the land of the Palestinian village of Al-'A ...

and

Petah Tikva Petah Tikva (, ), also spelt Petah Tiqwa and known informally as Em HaMoshavot (), is a city in the Central District (Israel), Central District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv. It was founded in 1878, mainly by Haredi Judaism, Haredi Jews of the Old Y ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was founded in 1926 by workers from

who were children of middle class immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah. It was initially called HaTehiya (, ''lit.'' Revival), but later took the

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name of , a

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town in the land of the

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which is mentioned in

Joshua Joshua ( ), also known as Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' Literal translation, lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jehoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Book of Exodus, Exodus and ...

19:45. The Biblical town is "identified with

Tel Gerisa Tel Gerisa () or Tell Jerishe and Tell Jarisha (Arabic), commonly known as Tel Napoleon (), as his army camped on it during the siege of Jaffa, is an archaeological site in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the southern bank of the Yarkon River. The Tel measu ...

"Negev, Avraham/Gibson, Shimon, Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land, New York/London 2001, p.191, (English) near the Yarkon river in the north of Tel Aviv by the archaeologist Benjamin Mazar. According to the 1931 census Gat Rimon had a population of 142 Jews, in 30 houses.Mills, 1932, p
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{{Authority control Moshavim Populated places established in 1926 Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1926 establishments in Mandatory Palestine