Sde Yoav ( he, שְׂדֵה יוֹאָב, ''lit.'' Yoav's Field) is a
kibbutz
A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...
in southcentral
Israel. Located between the cities of
Kiryat Gat,
Kiryat Malakhi and
Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Yoav Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The kibbutz was founded in 1956, and was named after
Yitzhak Dubno
Yitzhak( ()) is a male first name, and is Hebrew for Isaac. Yitzhak may refer to:
People
* Yitzhak ha-Sangari, rabbi who converted the Khazars to Judaism
*Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995), Israeli politician and Prime Minister
*Yitzhak Shamir (1915– ...
(nicknamed Yoav) who was killed whilst defending the nearby kibbutz of
Negba during the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...
.
Sde Yoav was founded on land that had belonged to the depopulated
Palestinian village of
Iraq Suwaydan.
Today, similar to many other kibbutzim, Sde Yoav is in the process of privatization.
References
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Kibbutzim
Kibbutz Movement
Populated places established in 1956
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
1956 establishments in Israel