Nir Banim

Nir Banim
Nir Banim
Coordinates: 31°40′20.27″N 34°45′15.48″E / 31.6722972°N 34.7543000°ECoordinates: 31°40′20.27″N 34°45′15.48″E / 31.6722972°N 34.7543000°E
Council	Be'er Tuvia Regional Council
Region	South-central Israel
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1954
Founded by	Sons from other moshavim

Nir Banim (Hebrew: נִיר בָּנִים, lit. Sons' Meadow) is a moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 632.

The moshav was founded in 1954 by sons of residents of the moshavim of Be'er Tuvia, Kfar Vitkin, Kfar Yehezkel, Nahalal and Herut. This was also the source of its name.^[1]

It was established on land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya.^[2]

Notable residents

• Nitzan Alon

References

1. Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval Elʻazari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 35. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
2. Khalidi, 1992, p. 135

Bibliography

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