Nehora

{{Short description|Community settlement in southern Israel}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}

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| name = Nehora

| image = File:Nehora Aerial View.jpg

| hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|נְהוֹרָה}}

| foundation = 1955

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| country = {{flag|Israel}}

| district = south

| council = Lakhish

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| population = {{Israel populations|Nehora}}

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| coordinates = {{coord|31|37|21|N|34|42|18|E|display=inline,title}}

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Nehora ({{langx|he|נהורה}}) is a community settlement in southern Israel. Located on the coastal plain about 5 km west Kiryat Gat in south-central Israel and just to the east of Route 352, across the road from Noga, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lakhish Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Nehora}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}

History

Nehora was founded in 1955 as part of the program to inhabit Hevel Lakhish and was intended to serve as a center of services for surrounding communities. A shopping center, regional school and the offices of the Lakhish Regional Council are located there.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

It is built on the land of the depopulated Palestinian villages of Karatiyya and al-Faluja.{{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first=Walid|last=Khalidi|authorlink=Walid Khalidi |year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5 |pages=97, 119}}

==References==

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{{Lakhish}}

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Category:Moshavim

Category:Populated places established in 1955

Category:1955 establishments in Israel

Category:Populated places in Southern District (Israel)