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Gumzo is a religious moshav located between Beit El and Modi’in settlement. It was established in 1950 on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Jamzo in the Ramla district. As of 2021, the population of the settlement was 1,198 settlers. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, we relied on Hebrew sources: the settlement’s Hebrew website / Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. The village of Jamzo is referenced from the Palestine Memory website.

Ganei Yohanan is a moshav located in the center of occupied Palestine. It was established in 1950 by immigrants from Romania on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Aqir in the Ramla district. The settlement was named after Yohanan Kreminetsky. Later, immigrants from Tripoli in Libya joined the founding settlers. As of 2021, the population of the settlement was 602 settlers. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, we relied on Hebrew sources: the set

Gali'a, sometimes written as Galia, is a moshav located in the center of occupied Palestine. It is situated in the coastal plain and covers an area of 2,000 dunams. The moshav was established in 1948 by immigrants from Bulgaria on land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Qubayya in the Ramla district, whose residents were displaced in 1948. As of 2022, the population of the settlement was 924 settlers. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, we

Gizer is a kibbutz settlement located in the center of occupied Palestine. It is situated between the settlements of Modiin-Maccabim-Reut and Ramat Razi'el, as well as the Zoharut settlement, and the city of Ramlah. It was established in 1945 on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Qabab in the Ramla district. As of 2019, the population of the settlement was 287 settlers. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, we relied on Hebrew sources: the se

Kedron is a moshav located in the central part of occupied Palestine. It was established in 1949 by a group of Zionist immigrants from Yugoslavia. The settlement was named after Wadi Kedron. Subsequently, Zionist immigrants from Romania also joined the settlement. It was established on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Qatra, which became abandoned during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. As of 2022, the population of the settlement was 1,626 settlers. Source

Kiryat Ackron, also known as Kfar Ackron, is a settlement located in occupied Palestine, on the central coastal plain in the central region. The name Ackron is derived from the city of Akron, a major Palestinian city that was located on the nearby Mount Al-Muqan. Kiryat Ackron was established in 1948, originally under the name Kfar Ackron, on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Aqar. After the war, new immigrants from Yemen and Bulgaria settled in the remainin

Kfar Aharon is one of the neighborhoods south of Nes Tziona settlement. The settlement was established on July 2, 1926, by farmers who were members of the Bnei Binyamin Association through the Farmers’ Company, on the lands of the depopulated Wadi Haneen village in the Ramlah District. It was named after the renowned botanist and agricultural engineer Aharon Aharonson. Among the founding families were the Timan, Weizer, and Tchpurg families. David Neiman, son of Mordechai Ne

Kfar Ben Nun is a moshav located in the center of the occupied Palestinian territories. It was established in 1952 by the Agricultural Union on the lands of the depopulated village of Al-Qabab, Ramlah District. It was initially named Beit Mishmar Eyalon because it was situated at the intersection of the road with the current Mishmar Eyalon, which was established two years prior. Its name was later changed to Kfar Ben Nun following the Ben Nun operation. As of 2019, the popul

Kfar Daniel is a moshav established on October 9, 1949, located approximately four kilometers southeast of Lod, on the land of the depopulated and destroyed village of Daniel in 1948. In 2020, its settler population was approximately 698, and it covers an area of 2,900 dunams. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Hebrew sources were used: the settlement’s official website in Hebrew / the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Information on the village of Daniel wa

Kfar Ruth is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav, established in 1977 on the lands of the depopulated villages of Shilta and Al-Burj, Ramla district. The area became a restricted zone between Israel and the West Bank, which was under Jordanian control at the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, before becoming part of the territory occupied by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967. In 2022, the settler population was approximately 275. Sources: Due to the scarcity of A

Kfar Hanagid is a moshav located in central occupied Palestine, situated on the coastal plain approximately 20 km south of Tel Aviv and north of Yavne. The moshav was established in 1949 by immigrants from Bulgaria on the lands of the depopulated village of Yavne, Ramla district. It was named after Samuel Hanagid. According to Benny Morris, the moshav was established near the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Qubeiba. However, Walid Khalidi wrote that it is l

Kfar Gafirot was the former name of the Ibn Gafirot neighborhood located on the western edge of the Rehovot settlement, adjacent to the "Dutch Rehovot" neighborhood. By 2008, more than 900 settler families lived in the neighborhood. Beginning in the second decade of the 21st century, the neighborhood saw vertical construction with a doubling of the number of families, as part of the developmental trend in the western part of the settlement and the establishment of new transpo

Karem Yavne is a Zionist youth settlement located near the city of Ashdod, adjacent to Kibbutz Yavne. It was established on the lands of the depopulated village of Yibna in the Ramla District. The Karem Yavne school was founded in 1954. As of 2021, the settler population was 538. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Hebrew sources were used: the official Hebrew website of the settlement and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Information about the village of

Maccabim–Re'ut is a military colony established in 1986 on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Bir Ma'in in the Ramla District. It is located in the southeastern corner of the Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut settlement and is characterized by low-rise buildings that are connected to the ground and separated from the rest of the settlement. In 2003, the settler population was approximately 11,500. The area consists of two settlements: "Maccabim" and "Re'ut," establishe

Nahalal is a religious colony established in 1952 on the lands of the depopulated village of Al-Muzayri'a, located in the northwestern part of the village’s lands in the Ramla District. As of 2022, the settler population was approximately 1,825. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Hebrew sources were used: the official Hebrew website of the settlement and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Information about the village of Al-Muzayri'a was sourced from the

Na'an is a kibbutz located near the settlement of Rehovot, in the central region of the occupied Palestinian territories. The kibbutz was established in September 1930 by 42 members of the Noar HaOved youth movement, on land taken from the Palestinian village of Al-Na'ani. It is the first kibbutz to have been established by Zionist Jews born in Palestine. Today, Na'an is the largest kibbutz in the occupied territories in terms of settler population. The kibbutz was named aft

Neve Shalom, also known as "Oasis of Peace," is a colony that was originally established as a joint Arab-Jewish village, with residents consisting of both Palestinians and Jews. It was founded in 1970 by Father Bruno Hussar and is located midway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, on land belonging to the depopulated village of Latrun in the Ramla District. The residents chose to establish a bi-national and bilingual community aimed at fostering dialogue and transforming the nat

Netzer Sereni is a kibbutz located in the central region of the occupied Palestinian territories. It was established in 1948 by Holocaust survivors who had been liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1945, they organized themselves under the name “Kibbutz Buchenwald,” an agricultural collective aimed at preparing Zionist Jews for life in Palestine—the first hachshara group to be formed in Germany after the war. The kibbutz was established on the lands of the de

Nir Tzvi is a moshav located in the central region of the occupied Palestinian territories, near the city of Lod. It was established in 1954 on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Sarafand al-‘Amar by immigrants from Argentina. Initially named Kfar Argentina (“Village of Argentina”), the land was owned by the Jewish National Fund, which financed the construction of 35 houses. The moshav was later renamed after Maurice “Tzvi” de Hirsch, who supported Zionist Je

Ness Ziona is a settlement located west of the city of Ramla, established on the ruins of the depopulated Palestinian villages of Wadi Hunayn and Sarafand al-Kharab, in the Ramla District. It became a large settlement in 1992. The number of settlers was approximately 30,000 in 2009, and around 50,350 in 2019. Its total area is 15.5 km². Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Hebrew sources were used: the official Hebrew website of the settlement and the Israeli Cent