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The agricultural religious colony of Moshav Yagel is located north of the city of Lod, near Lod Airport. It was established in 1950 by Jewish settlers from Iraq on thousands of hectares of agricultural land that belonged to Palestinian Arabs displaced from the village of Kafr ‘Ana, which was depopulated and occupied during Operation Dani on July 12, 1948. Today, the number of settlers in the colony is 905. Source: Zochrot website and the official website of Zeitan colony.

Ta'oz is a moshav located in the central region of the occupied Palestinian territories, with an area of approximately 1,500 dunams. It was established in 1950 by Zionist immigrants from Yemen on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Bayt Susin, in the Ramla District. As of 2022, the number of settlers residing there was 657. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, "Israeli" sources were used: the official Hebrew website of the settlement and the Israel

Kibbutz Yavne is a religious kibbutz located in the central region of the occupied Palestinian territories, in the coastal plain east of Ashdod. It was established in 1941 by German Zionists on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Yibna, in the Ramla District. As of 2011, the number of settlers residing there was 957. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Hebrew sources were used: the official Hebrew website of the settlement and the Israeli Central

Yesodot is a colony established in 1948 during the war, at a surveillance point along the Burma Road, on land that belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Umm Kalkha in the Ramla District. The colony was founded by Zionist immigrants from Hungary and Poland. As of 2021, the number of settlers residing there was 1,016. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, "Israeli" sources were used: the official Hebrew website of the settlement, and the Israeli Central

3.Hasolelim is a kibbutz in northern occupied Palestine. The nearby Palestinian town of Saffuriya was almost entirely emptied of its approximately 4,000 residents in July 1948. By early January 1949, about 500 residents had returned, but “the neighboring settlements coveted the lands of Saffuriya.” The “Northern Front” ordered its evacuation, which was carried out on January 7, 1949. From February of the same year onward, the lands of Saffuriya were distributed to the nearby

Tzipori is a moshav located in northern occupied Palestine, in the Lower Galilee. It was established approximately 3 kilometers southeast of old Saffuriya, from which it takes its name.

Timorim is a moshav located in central occupied Palestine, situated on the Palestinian coastal plain about one kilometer south of the Malakhi junction, near the settlement of Kiryat Malakhi.

Migdal HaEmek is an Israeli settlement located southwest of the Arab city of Nazareth in the Northern District. It was established between 1952 and 1953 as a refugee camp to accommodate Zionist immigrants to occupied Palestine, on the ruins of the Palestinian village of al-Majdal. The settlement covers an area of 7.6 square kilometers. The population numbered approximately 24,000 settlers in 2007, about 25,000 settlers in 2019, and around 27,088 settlers in 2022.

Hannaton is a kibbutz located in northern occupied Palestine, approximately 12 kilometers north of Nazareth and near the Arab town of Shefa-‘Amr. It was established in 1984 on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Saffuriyya, in the Nazareth district. To the east of the kibbutz lies Tel Hannaton, an archaeological site associated with the biblical town of the same name. The tell is situated at the western edge of the Beit Netofa Valley and spans approximately 10

Hoshaya is a national religious settlement located in northern occupied Palestine, southeast of the city of Shefa-'Amr, and approximately three kilometers from the Beit Rimon Junction. The settlement was named after Rabbi Hoshaya (also known as Oshaya), a scholar from the Amoraic period of the Talmud who lived in the nearby city of Sepphoris (Saffuriyya). The settlement of Hoshaya was established in 1981 on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Saffuriyya. Init

Yifat is a kibbutz located in the Galilee region in northern occupied Palestine. It lies adjacent to the settlement of Migdal HaEmek, and is within short distances of the cities of Afula and Nazareth. The kibbutz was established on the lands of the depopulated village of al-Mujaydil, in the district of Nazareth. The kibbutz was founded in 1954 by members of the organization Kvutzat HaSharon, who had previously lived in Ramat David, along with former residents of Giv'at, incl

Alon HaGalil is a settlement in northern occupied Palestine, located in Lower Galilee. It was established in 1980 on land that belonged to the depopulated Palestinian city of Safouriyeh. It was founded as a moshav and later converted into a community settlement in 1986, although it remains a member of the Moshavim Movement. In 2022, the settlement had a population of 1,135 settlers.

Nes Harim is a moshav in the central occupied Palestinian territories, located eight kilometers west of Jerusalem, at an elevation of 693 meters above sea level. The moshav was established in 1950 by immigrants and refugees from northern Iran, southern Kurdistan, and Morocco, on the lands of the depopulated village of Beit ‘Atab in the Jerusalem district, near Deir al-Hawa, whose inhabitants were displaced during the 1948 war in Operation Ha-Har.

It is a Zionist neighborhood in Jerusalem, established in 1949 on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Malha, Jerusalem district. Many of the original Arab houses still stand and are inhabited by Zionist families.

Ishta’ol is a moshav in central occupied Palestine, located 6 km north of the settlement of Beit Shemesh. The modern settlement of Ishta’ol was established in 1949 on the lands of the two depopulated Arab villages, Ishwa and Aslin, following the 1948 ethnic cleansing war. It was part of a plan to create settlements in the Jerusalem corridor to form a contiguous bloc between the coastal plain and Jerusalem. The initial settlers were immigrants from Yemen, who settled there in

Even Sapir is a moshav in central occupied Palestine, located on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The settlement of Sapir was established in 1949 on land that formerly belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Ein Karem. The moshav was founded by immigrants from Kurdistan. The name "Even Sapir" is either derived from the book Even Sapir, written in 1864 by Yaakov Halevi Sapir, a rabbi and emissary from Jerusalem who described his travels to Yemen in the 19th century, or

The village of Zar'in was situated on a small hill extending from the mountains of Faqqu’a to the south. This hill was not significantly elevated above the surrounding Marj Ibn Amir (Jezreel Valley), which bordered it to the west and south. To the north and east, the terrain sloped down toward Wadi Jalud. Zar'in, one of the northernmost villages in the district, lay along a route connecting two main roads: one leading to Jenin, and the other to Baysan in the southeast. The v

The village was built atop a small, rounded hill that extended from the northern slope of Mount Faqqu’a. It overlooked the Jordan Valley from the north and northeast. A dirt road connected it to the village of Tall al-Shawk, one of the villages in the District of Baysan. Khirbat al-Jawfa was classified as a farm (mazra'a) in the Palestine Index Gazetteer , compiled during the British Mandate period. Occupation and Depopulation Although the village was administratively part o

The village of Nuris was built along both sides of a shallow valley at the base of the steep slopes of Mount al-Mazar. The railway line connecting Haifa to Samakh (and eventually the Hejaz Railway) ran to the northeast of the village. One dirt road connected Nuris to the village of al-Mazar via the mountain top, while another linked it to the village of Zir'in. Crusader sources referred to the village as Noret . The surrounding area, particularly near Nuris, was the site of

The village of Al-Mazar was built on the lower western slopes of Mount Carmel, overlooking the narrow coastal plain and the Mediterranean Sea. Approximately one-third of the village's land was located on Mount Carmel, with the remainder extending into the coastal plain. The main coastal highway passed along the western edge of the village, while the Crusader fortress of Atlit lay only about 2.5 kilometers to the north. The name Al-Mazar is most likely derived from the large