Rishpon () 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 the Central District of

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

. Located in the Sharon plain near

Herzliya Herzliya ( ; , / ) is an affluent List of Israeli cities, city in the Israeli coastal plain, central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture. In it had a populatio ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Hof HaSharon Regional Council Hof HaSharon Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Hof HaSharon'', ''lit.'' Sharon Coast Regional Council), is a regional council (Israel), regional council in the Central District (Israel), Central and Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv districts of Isra ...

. In it had a population of . The moshav was established in 1936. Its original proposed name by the name committee, Rishpona (), is an artificial reconstruction of the supposed ancient name of Arsuf, based on a misreading of an Assyrian inscription.Maciej M. Münnich, ''The God Resheph in the Ancient Near East'' (2013)
p. 244
citing Shlomo Izre’el, "Arsuf: The Semitic Name of Apollonia" in: ''Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations Volume I'', The Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University No. 16, Tel Aviv (1999), 72f. The misreading *''rašpūna'' for ''kašpūna'' in an inscription of Tiglath-Pileser III was recognized in 1951. The current name was chosen by its residents, and has similar elements.

Notable people

Meir Har-Zion Meir Har-Zion (; February 25, 1934 – March 14, 2014) was an Israeli military Commando (military), commando. As a key member of Unit 101, he was highly praised by Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan who described him as "the finest of our commando soldie ...

(1934–2014), military commando

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Moshavim Populated places established in 1936 1936 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Populated places in Central District (Israel)