Gan Sorek

Gan Sorek גַּן שׂוֹרֵק
Council	Gan Raveh
Region	Coastal plain
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1950
Founded by	Polish and Romanian immigrants

Gan Sorek (Hebrew: גַּן שׂוֹרֵק, lit. Sorek Garden) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain around four kilometres south-west of Rishon LeZion and covering 700 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 326.

The moshav was founded on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Nabi Rubin^[1] in 1950 by immigrants from Poland and Romania and it is named after the nearby Nahal Sorek.^[2]

References

1. Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5, p. 403
2. Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval Elʻazari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 118. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.

Coordinates: 31°56′39.11″N 34°45′35.64″E / 31.9441972°N 34.7599000°E