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Mazkeret Batya

Center District, Israel
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Mazkeret Batya is a neighborhood council in crucial Israel placed southeast of Rehovot and 25 kilometres from Tel-Aviv. Mazkeret Batya spans an area of 7,440 dunams. In 2017 it had a population of 14,159. The mayor of Mazkeret Batya is Gaby Gaon. Mazkeret Batya changed into installed on November 7, 1883 through 11 pioneers from Russia and seven nearby Jews. It was firstly referred to as Ekron, the primary agricultural agreement of the Hovevei Zion motion. The land turned into bought with the aid of Baron Rothschild in an early try to introduce Jewish farming in Palestine.

Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever was instrumental in mobilizing funding and organizing the settlers. Mohilever's stays have been later reinterred within the Mazkeret Batya cemetery. In 1887 the name became changed to Mazkeret Batya, in memory of Betty Solomon de Rothschild, mother of Baron Edmond James de Rothschild. The economic system of the village changed into in the beginning primarily based on dry farming, which persevered even after the Mekorot Company constructed a pipeline to convey water from Rehovot.

In 1947, Mazkeret Batya turned into home to 475 humans. According to a census carried out in 1922 with the aid of the British Mandate authorities, Mazkeret Batya had a population 368 Jews. During the Mandate era, a Jewish police station become hooked up in Mazkeret Batya to guard the nearby roads. In the War of Independence, convoys to besieged Jerusalem left from Mazkeret Batya. A subject clinic operated there to take care of Haganah fighters wounded at Latrun.

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