Kedma, Israel

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Kedma (Hebrew: קֵדְמָה) is a youth village in the southern Shephelah area of south-central Israel. It is under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council.

History

Kedma was founded as a kibbutz as part of the 11 points in the Negev campaign in 1946. Because of social and economic difficulties the kibbutz was abandoned at the end of the 1960s, and it became later on a youth village.

The group that founded the community planned originally to locate it near Netanya or the northwest shores of the Dead Sea, but after the latter was captured by the Jordanian army, they moved to the present-day location.

It was founded on land traditionally belonging to the Palestinian village of Summeil.[1] After 1948, it also started to farm some of the land belonging to Bil'in, Gaza.[2]

References

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  1. ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 137, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
  2. ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 91, ISBN 0-88728-224-5

Coordinates: 31°42′4.67″N 34°46′32.15″E / 31.7012972°N 34.7755972°E / 31.7012972; 34.7755972

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