Givat Nili

Givat Nili
Givat Nili
	Givat Nili
	Coordinates: 32°32′48.84″N 35°2′27.96″E / 32.5469000°N 35.0411000°ECoordinates: 32°32′48.84″N 35°2′27.96″E / 32.5469000°N 35.0411000°E
Country	Israel
District	Haifa
Council	Alona Regional Council
Affiliation	Mishkei Herut Beitar
Founded	1953
Founded by	Iraq, Turkish and Tunisian immigrants
Population (2019)	730

Givat Nili (Hebrew: גִּבְעַת נִילִ"י‎, lit. Nili Hill) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Zikhron Ya'akov and Wadi Ara, it falls under the jurisdiction of Alona Regional Council. In 2019 it had a population of 730.^[1]

History[]

The moshav was established in 1953 by Jewish immigrants from Iraq, Turkey and Tunisia on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Umm ash Shauf.^[2]^[3] It was named after the Nili underground organisation.^[4]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ Homes: Written in Stone, Jerusalem Post
^ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 199. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
^ Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval El'azari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 99. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.CS1 maint: others (link)