Komemiyut

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Komemiyut
קוֹמְמִיּוּת‎
كومميوت
Komemiyut Aerial View.jpg
Komemiyut is located in Ashkelon region of Israel
Komemiyut
Komemiyut
Coordinates: 31°39′43″N 34°43′50″E / 31.66194°N 34.73056°E / 31.66194; 34.73056Coordinates: 31°39′43″N 34°43′50″E / 31.66194°N 34.73056°E / 31.66194; 34.73056
CountryIsrael
DistrictSouthern
CouncilShafir
Founded1950
Founded byDemobilised soldiers
Population
 (2019)[1]
559

Komemiyut (Hebrew: קוֹמ��מִיּוּת, lit. '"sovereignty"') is an Hasidic moshav in south-central Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah near Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In 2019 it had a population of 559.[1]

History[]

Center of Komemiyut

The group which established the village was formed as a youth group by Agudat Israel in August 1949, composed mainly of demobilized soldiers from a religious unit that had fought in the area during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The name is take from a biblical passage, Leviticus 26:13:[2]

After training in , the group founded the moshav in 1950 on land given to it by the Jewish National Fund.[3] The village was built over the depopulated Palestinian village of Karatiyya.[4]

The moshav was built as an agricultural village, but to ensure a livelihood during the shmita year, industries were also established. The moshav has two bakeries including a matzo bakery, a dairy, a shingles factory, a marble factory, and a tefillin factory.[5][6][7] The moshav also has a program for yeshiva students, during which they study for six days and return to their homes only for shabbat and a Talmud Torah school for children.

Shmita harvest[]

As it was founded by observant Jews, the village was one of the few that refrained from working the land during the first Shmita year after independence, 1952.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  2. ^ Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land (3rd ed.). Jerusalem: Carta. 1993. pp. 387–388. ISBN 965-220-186-3. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk erect
  3. ^ http://jpress.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_Heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?parm=CzRg1ZXxmnsNeV487qhwru60Ta4Z7obwcmzMh1x4mVDVAq8ETu%2BMn8lWonvObbokYw%3D%3D&mode=image&href=DAV%2f1949%2f05%2f02&page=4&rtl=true
  4. ^ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 119. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  5. ^ http://jpress.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_Heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?parm=LBIAAaURQHJ3RbhMhR9ZNSBxT72KTv6goJFqD8Is%2B%2F0OaoQrdKL%2FOCYBQJTpQmPlYw%3D%3D&mode=image&href=HZH%2f1953%2f12%2f14&page=4&rtl=true
  6. ^ http://jpress.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_Heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?parm=4ytfdhHSD0PRUQl%2FVdEqeEUgyNw9oRY5AgMBzVJLYLlvI4x28Wx8gV3qAaO6ktASYw%3D%3D&mode=image&href=DAV%2f1952%2f09%2f12&page=12&rtl=true
  7. ^ http://jpress.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_Heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?parm=0wrBjcC3LYbX1bDtwy7y8k8oMqDHrQFQJAxiCherlksZxYRAJV30TrE9msyoQgZWYw%3D%3D&mode=image&href=DAV%2f1959%2f04%2f24&page=8&rtl=true
  8. ^ Mordechai Kuber (2007). "Shmittah for the Clueless". Jewish Action: The Magazine of the Orthodox Union. 68 (2). p. 6875.}
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