Ramot HaShavim ( he, רָמוֹת הַשָּׁבִים, ''lit.'' Heights of the Returnees) is a

Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...

ish village in central

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

.The History of Jewish Agricultural Settlement in Palestine, Alex Bein
/ref> Located between

Hod HaSharon Hod HaSharon ( he, הוֹד הַשָּׁרוֹן, lit. "Splendor of the Sharon plain") is a city in the Central District of Israel. The city is located approximately east of the Mediterranean coastline, south of Kfar Saba, southeast of Raanana ...

and

Ra'anana Ra'anana ( he, רַעֲנָנָּה, lit. "Fresh") is a city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, 1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an importan ...

and covering around 2,300 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Drom HaSharon Regional Council The Drom HaSharon Regional Council ( he, מוֹעָצָה אֲזוֹרִית דְּרוֹם הַשָׁרוֹן, translit. ''Mo'atza Azorit Drom HaSharon'', ''lit.'' Southern Sharon Regional Council) is a regional council in the Sharon region in c ...

. In it had a population of .

History

Ramot HaShavim was established as a

moshav A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 ...

in 1933 by

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...

immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah. In 1951 it became an independent local council, but as part of local government reforms in 2003 it reverted to village status under the jurisdiction of a

regional council Regional Council may refer to: * Regional Council (Hong Kong), disbanded in 1999 ** Regional Council (constituency) Regional council may refer to: * Regional council (Cameroon) * Regional council (France), the elected assembly of a region of Fra ...

Gallery

File:רמות השבים - מראה כללי-JNF044840.jpeg, Ramot HaShavim 1937 File:רמות השבים - מראה-JNF003009.jpeg, Ramot HaShavim 1945

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Former moshavim Former local councils in Israel Villages in Israel Populated places established in 1933 Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1933 establishments in Mandatory Palestine German-Jewish culture in Israel