Kiryat Ekron

Kiryat Ekron or Qiryath Eqron is a city placed at the coastal simple inside the Central District of Israel. Located without delay south of the metropolis of Rehovot on Highway 411 subsequent to the Bilu Junction, in 2017 it had a populace of 10,909. Kiryat Ekron became based in 1948, as Kfar Ekron, on the site of the Palestinian village of Aqir, and changed into named after the biblical Ekron, a major Philistine town that is believed to have once existed at nearby Tel Mikne. After the conflict, new immigrants from Yemen and Bulgaria settled inside the final houses. In November 1948, ma'abarot had been hooked up at the village's lands; the Aqir ma'abara, and the Givat Brenner ma'abara.

In 1953, the Aqir ma'abara became officially made part of Kfar Ekron, accompanied by the Givat Brenner ma'abara in 1955. From 1954 to 1963, Kfar Ekron belonged to the Givat Brenner nearby council. In 1963, the call of the metropolis was modified to Kiryat Ekron, and it have become an impartial neighborhood municipality. Attempts to unite Kiryat Ekron with the a good deal large municipality of Rehovot in 2003 failed after popular protest from residents of the metropolis, as did comparable tries to unite Kiryat Ekron's municipality with that of the city of Mazkeret Batya due to competition from the smaller town's residents the same year Mazkeret Batya turned into in the beginning called Ekron, while based in Eighteen Eighties; its name turned into modified to Mazkeret Batya in 1887.