District Southern Affiliation HaOved HaTzioni Population (2015) 604 Founded 1953 | Council Lakhish Founded by HaNoar HaTzioni Name meaning Natan Memorial Local time Sunday 11:34 PM | |
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Yad Natan (Hebrew: יַד נָתָן, lit. Memorial for Natan) is a moshav in southern Israel in Hevel Lakhish, near the town of Kiryat Gat. It is part of the Lakhish Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 604.
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Map of Yad Natan, Israel
History
The moshav was founded in 1953 by Jewish immigrants from the Hungarian youth movement HaNoar HaTzioni as part of the effort to settle the region. It was named after Ottó Komoly (his Hebrew birth name was Natan Kohn), a leader of the Zionist movement in Hungary, who was murdered in 1945, apparently for anti-Semitic reasons. The moshav was built 800m south and 1 km north-east, respectively, of the sites of the Arab villages of Bayt 'Affa and Iraq Suwaydan, which were depopulated in 1948.
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Yad Natan Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA