Maor

Maor מָאוֹר
Maor
Coordinates: 32°23′N 35°00′E / 32.383°N 35.000°E / 32.383; 35.000Coordinates: 32°23′N 35°00′E / 32.383°N 35.000°E / 32.383; 35.000
Council	Menashe
Founded	1953
Founded by	Romanian Jews
Name meaning	Source of light

Maor (Hebrew: מָאוֹר) is an agricultural moshav in the Menashe Regional Council, Israel, near Baqa al-Gharbiyye. It was established in 1953 by Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland; was abandoned after several years, and re-established in 1957 by Jewish immigrants from Yemen. The population is several hundred people, some of which work in agriculture on the moshav, and others who live on the moshav but work elsewhere.

Panoramic view of the moshav from south-east

Menashe Regional Council

Kibbutzim	Barkai Ein Shemer Gan Shmuel Kfar Glikson Lahavot Haviva Magal Ma'anit Metzer Mishmarot Regavim

Moshavim	Ein Iron Gan HaShomron Kfar Pines Maor Mei Ami Sde Yitzhak Talmei Elazar

Community settlement	Mitzpe Ilan

Arab villages	al-Arian Meiser Umm al-Qutuf

Jewish locality	Katzir

Youth village	Alonei Yitzhak

Residential treatment center	Sha'ar Menashe

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