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Rishon LeZion Colony

  • nakba memory museum
  • Nov 7, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jun 18

Rishon LeZion is a settlement located south of the “Tel Aviv” settlement, south of the occupied Jaffa district, on the site of the depopulated Arab village of ‘Ayn Qara. It covers an area of 59 km². The settlement was founded on July 31, 1882, by a group called “Lovers of Zion” from Kharkov, Ukraine. It was developed with funding from Baron Rothschild, who built grape presses there for wine production and encouraged the cultivation of various grape varieties. Today, it is one of the settlements in the Gush Dan area and ranks as the fourth largest Zionist settlement by population, numbering 249,860 inhabitants in 2017. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, we have relied on “Hebrew” sources: the settlement’s Hebrew website / Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics.  

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