Beko'a

{{Infobox Kibbutz

| name = Beko'a

| hebname = בקוע

| meaning = Splitting

| image = Baqoa2011.png

| foundation = 1952

| founded_by = Yemenite Jews

| country = {{ISR}}

| district = jerusalem

| council = Mateh Yehuda

| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}

| population = {{Israel populations|Beqoa}}

| population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}}

| affiliation = Moshavim Movement

| pushpin_map = Israel jerusalem#Israel

| pushpin_mapsize = 250

| pushpin_label_position = bottom

| coordinates = {{coord|31|49|44|N|34|55|34|E|display=inline,title}}

| website =

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Beko'a ({{langx|he|בקוע||Splitting}}) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near the city of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Beqoa}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}

History

Beko'a was established in 1952 by immigrants from Yemen on land that had belonged to the Arab Palestinian village of Dayr Muhaysin, which was depopulated in 1948.{{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|page=378}} Its name is symbolic and refers to the division of Jerusalem following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

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