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Qiryat Gat

South District, Israel
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Qiryat Gat is a city within the Southern District of Israel. It lies 56 km south of Tel Aviv, 43 km north of Beersheba, 45 km from Gaza, and 68 km from Jerusalem. In 2017 it had a populace of 53,487. Kiryat Gat became founded in 1954, to begin with as a ma'abara. The following year it became installed as a development city by using 18 families from Morocco. It become founded simply west of the ruins of the Palestinian Arab village of Iraq al-Manshiyya, which was depopulated in 1949 after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The former region of Iraq al-Manshiyya is now inside the built-up area of Kiryat Gat.

By 1992, Kiryat Gat had grown and unfold also on to the land formerly belonged to the village of Al-Faluja. The populace rose from 4,400 inhabitants in 1958 to 17,000 in 1969, on the whole Jewish immigrants from North Africa. The economy turned into initially based totally on processing the rural produce of the Lachish location, together with cotton and wool. In December 1972, Kiryat Gat's municipal fame become upgraded and it became Israel's thirty first city.

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