Revaha
{{Infobox Kibbutz
| name = Revaha
|hebname=רווחה
|arname=رفاحا
| image = File:Revaha Aerial View.jpg
| foundation = 1953
| founded_by = Kurdish immigrants
| district = south
| council = Shafir
| affiliation = Hapoel HaMizrachi
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| population = {{Israel populations|Rewaha}}
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|coordinates = {{coord|31|38|56|N|34|43|59|E|display=inline,title}}
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Revaha ({{langx|he|רְוָחָה}}, lit. prosperity) is a religious moshav in south-central Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah near Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Rewaha}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
Revaha was established in 1953 by Jewish immigrants from Kurdistan on lands which had formerly belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Karatiyya.{{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=119}} It is located close to Hatta, but not on its village land.{{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}} The name of the moshav is derived both from the symbolic significance of the name itself and from the quote in Pirkei Avot 1:5: "Let thy house be wide open".Hareouveni, Emanouel (1974). The Settlements of Israel and Their Archaeological sites (in Hebrew). Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad. p. 198
The majority of residents are national-religious. {{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
References
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Category:Kurdish-Jewish culture in Israel
Category:Religious Israeli communities
Category:Populated places established in 1953