Beit Dagan Settlement

Beit Dagan is a settlement located in central occupied Palestine. During the Ottoman period, the Beit Dagan area belonged to the Lydda subdistrict, which extended from present-day Modi'in–Maccabim–Re'ut in the south to El'ad in the north, and from the eastern foothills across the Lydda plain to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west.

Modern Beit Dagan was established in 1948 on the ruins of the depopulated Palestinian village of Beit Dajan, by Mizrahi Jewish immigrants from Yemen and North Africa. It is believed to be located near the site of biblical Beit Dagan. "Dagan," or "Dagon," is also the name of an ancient Semitic deity associated in ancient beliefs with ensuring the fertility of the land and abundance of crops.

Beit Dagan was granted local council status in 1958. Its population in 2021 was about 7,823 people.

Sources:Due to the limited availability of Arabic sources, the following Hebrew sources were relied upon:

• The settlement's official website

• Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics

• Information on the village of Beit Dajan from the website mentioned in the text.