Nordia () is a

moshav shitufi A moshav shitufi (, lit. ''collective moshav'', pl. ''moshavim shitufiim'') is a type of cooperative State of Israel, Israeli village, whose organizational principles place it between the kibbutz and the moshav on the scale of cooperation. Ideolo ...

in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near

Netanya Netanya () () or Natanya (), is a city in the "Planet Bekasi" Central District (Israel), Setanyahu of Israel, Israel BAB ih, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between the Poleg stre ...

and the

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, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Lev HaSharon Regional Council Lev HaSharon Regional Council () is a regional council in the Sharon region of the Central District of Israel. History The council was established in 1984, unifying Hadar HaSharon and Northern Sharon regional councils, and covers 18 villages wi ...

. In it had a population of .

History

In 1926 the American Zion Commonwealth announced plans to establish a new agricultural village to be named "Nordia" in memory of the

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leader

Max Nordau Max Simon Nordau (born Simon Maximilian Südfeld; 29 July 1849 – 23 January 1923) was a Hungarian Zionism, Zionist leader, physician, author, and Social criticism, social critic. He was a co-founder of the Zionist Organization together with Theo ...

. Land was sold in the United States for this purpose, but the plan did not come to fruition. Nordia was founded on 2 November 1948 by

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Irgun The Irgun (), officially the National Military Organization in the Land of Israel, often abbreviated as Etzel or IZL (), was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of th ...

and

Betar The Betar Movement (), also spelled Beitar (), is a Revisionist Zionism, Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. It was one of several right-wing youth movements tha ...

soldiers, members of the

Herut Herut () was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism. Some of their policies were compared to those of the Nazi party. Early y ...

movement,Israel: A History

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on the land of the depopulated

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village of

Khirbat Bayt Lid Khirbat Bayt Lid () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated by its Arab inhabitants during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. History In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the residents of Beit Lid an agr ...

, The founders came from two units – Margolim based in

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and Wedgwood (named after

Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the indu ...

) based in Mishmar HaYarden. In 1994 a new neighborhood, Neot Nordia, was established. File:נורדיה - סלילת כביש.-JNF043453.jpeg, Nordia first attempt to establish settlement 1924 File:נורדיה - סלילת כביש.-JNF043454.jpeg, Nordia 1924 File:נורדיה - רחוב ההולך ונבנה.-JNF043451.jpeg, Nordia 1924 File:NordiaJan212022.jpg, Nordia 2022 File:NordiaAssistedLivingJan212022 02.jpg, Nordia Assisted Living 2022

References

External links

Village website
{{Lev HaSharon Regional Council Moshavim Populated places established in 1948 Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1948 establishments in Israel