Nehalim (, ''lit.'' Streams) 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 south of

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 Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The Nehalim

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was formed in 1938 by a core group of young, religious Bnei Akiva members from

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. They began agricultural training in

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in the Jordan Valley. In 1944 they moved to a tract of swampy, malaria-infested land, about a kilometre south east of the site of the present kibbutz HaGoshrim, and lived in barracks without electricity or running water. Inspiration for the name Nehalim came from the network of brooks and streams in the area. After the

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, the residents were moved to the abandoned German Templer village of Wilhelma. The new moshav, in its present location south of Petah Tikva, was founded in 1953, with each family receiving a two-room house and 25

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...

s of land.

Synagogues

Nehalim has one main synagogue, established by Jews of Ashkenazi background. In 2012, the moshav's growing Mizrahi population wanted to build a second synagogue to reflect its own religious heritage but the chief rabbi of the moshav, David Greenwald, vetoed it.

Education

Nehalim also has a religious boys high school. The school was one of the first Bnei Akiva high schools in Israel, and was established in 1955 by Yosef Ba-Gad.

References

{{Authority control Moshavim Religious Israeli communities Populated places established in 1952 1952 establishments in Israel Jewish villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Populated places in Central District (Israel)

History

Synagogues

Education

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