Or HaNer () is 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 ...

in southern

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. Located near

Sderot Sderot (, , ; , sometimes Romanized as "Sederot") is a western Negev city and former development town in the Southern District (Israel), Southern District of Israel. In , it had a population of . Sderot is located less than a mile from Gaza St ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council The Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Sha'ar HaNegev'', ''lit.'' Gate of the Negev Regional Council), is a regional council in the north-western Negev, in Israel's Southern District. The Regional Council's territory lies midway ...

. In it had a population of .

Etymology

Its name is taken from the

Sanhedrin The Sanhedrin (Hebrew and Middle Aramaic , a loanword from , 'assembly,' 'sitting together,' hence ' assembly' or 'council') was a Jewish legislative and judicial assembly of either 23 or 70 elders, existing at both a local and central level i ...

tractate of the

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History

Or HaNer was established between 1955 and 1957 as a farm run by the Yitzur u-Pitu'ah company. The founders were from the

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of the Gordoniya, Dror and

HeHalutz HeHalutz or HeChalutz (, lit. "The Pioneer") was a Jewish youth movement that trained young people for agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel. It became an umbrella organization of the pioneering Zionist youth movements. History Before W ...

movements, most of whom were

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from

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and

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. Many of them originally came from the kibbutz

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. It was founded on the land that had belonged to the depopulated

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village of

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, northeast of the Najd village site. A burial cave dating from the 4th century CE was found here along with a

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funerary inscription. In 2016 U.S.

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Thomas A. Shannon Jr. visited the kibbutz and received a tour of the kibbutz's Ornit factory, which manufactures

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.About
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References

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