Tsofiya Settlement

A kibbutz located in the center of occupied Palestine, established in 1948 on the lands of the displaced village of Bībna, in the Ramla district. As of 2021, the population of the settlement was 623 settlers. In October 1948, a group of former members of the Palmach militias established the Mashgaf HaPalmach kibbutz one kilometer south of Soba, which was later renamed Tsofiya Palmach. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, we relied on "Israeli" sources: the Hebrew website of the settlement / the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. The village of Bībna is referenced from the Palestine in Memory website.