Aluma
{{Short description|Moshav in southern Israel}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Infobox Israel village
| name = Aluma
| hebname = אלומה
| meaning = Sheaf
| image = File:Aluma Israel.JPG
| altOffSp = Alumma
| founded = 1965
| founded_by = Agudat Yisrael members
| country = {{ISR}}
| district = south
| council = Shafir
| affiliation =
| population = {{Israel populations|Alumma}}
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}}
| pushpin_map = Israel ashkelon#Israel |pushpin_mapsize=250
| coordinates = {{coord|31|39|5|N|34|44|37|E|display=inline,title}}
| website =
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Aluma ({{langx|he|אלומה||Sheaf}}) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the southern coastal plain around three kilometers north-west of Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Alumma}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
File:Byzantine Basilica Mosaic Aluma.JPG
The village was established in 1965 as a youth village named Hazon Yehezkel by a group called Mosadot Hinukh Ezuri (lit. Institute for Regional Education), made up of young members of Agudat Yisrael. It was built on the ruins of the depopulated Palestinian village of Hatta.{{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first1=Walid|last1=Khalidi|authorlink=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5|id={{ISBN|0-88728-224-5}}|page=101 }} In 1996 the Ministry of Interior granted the village municipal council status and renamed it Aluma.
In 2014, the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered a 1,500-year-old Byzantine church containing an ancient mosaic floor bearing a Christogram surrounded by birds. {{cite web |last1=Gannon |first1=Megan |title=Ancient Church Mosaic With Symbol of Jesus Uncovered in Israel |url=https://www.livescience.com/42761-ancient-church-mosaics-uncovered-israel.html |website=Live Science}} The church was discovered during a salvage dig prior to the construction of a new neighborhood on the moshav.[https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-byzantine-era-church-uncovered-in-israel-1.5314319 Byzantine-era church uncovered in southern Israel], Haaretz
References
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{{Shafir Regional Council}}
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Category:Community settlements
Category:Populated places established in 1965