Sitria
{{Short description|Moshav in central Israel}}
{{Infobox Israel village
| name = Sitria
| image = Education center Sitria.JPG
| imgsize = 250px
| caption = Sitria Education Center
| hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|סִתְרִיָה}}
| founded = 1949
| founded_by = {{nowrap|Polish and Romanian immigrants}}
| district = center
| council = Gezer
| affiliation = Moshavim Movement
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| country = {{ISR}}
| population = {{Israel populations|Sitriyya}}
| population_footnotes={{Israel populations|reference}}
| pushpin_map = Israel center ta | pushpin_mapsize = 250 | pushpin_label_position = bottom
|coordinates = {{coord|31|53|18|N|34|50|45|E|display=inline,title}}
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Sitria ({{langx|he|סִתְרִיָה}}) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shfela near Rehovot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Sitriyya}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
The moshav was founded on Lag BaOmer in 1949 on the land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Abu al-Fadl,{{Citation|title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C |authorlink=Benny Morris|first=Benny|last=Morris|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2004|ISBN=9780521009676|page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR21 xxi]}}{{Citation|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=357}} by 95 families from Poland and Romania who had been interned in a detention camp in Cyprus. Prior to 1948, the Sitriya Bedouin tribe lived in the area.[http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/family-affair-the-davids-of-sitriya-1.377165 The Davids of Sitriya] Haaretz
Economy
Domaine Herzberg, a boutique winery, is located in Sitria.[http://www.herzbergwine.com/wine.html Domaine Herzberg] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926061138/http://herzbergwine.com/wine.html |date=2011-09-26 }} The moshav also operates a riding stable, Susey Adama.[http://terrahorses.weebly.com/index.html Susey Adama Riding Stable]
Notable people
- Ori Gordin (born 1969), IDF Major General
References
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{{Gezer Regional Council}}
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Category:Populated places established in 1949
Category:Populated places in Central District (Israel)
Category:Polish-Jewish culture in Israel