Nir Galim

Nir Galim נִיר גַּלִּים‎
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Coordinates: 31°49′29″N 34°41′0″E
Country	Israel
District	Central
Council	Hevel Yavne
Affiliation	Hapoel HaMizrachi
Founded	1949
Founded by	Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivors
Population  (2022)[1]	1,333

Nir Galim (Hebrew: נִיר גַּלִּים, lit. 'Waves Meadow') is a religious moshav shitufi in south-central Israel, adjacent to the city of Ashdod. Located in the southern coastal plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 1,333.[1]

History

The moshav was established in 1949, on land which had belonged to the Palestinian village of Arab Suqrir, which was depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[2][3]

It was initially called Nir VeGal (Hebrew: ניר וגל, lit. 'Meadow and Wave'). The founders were Holocaust survivors from Hungary and Central Europe, including a set of twins who survived Josef Mengele's experiments.[4]

The Testimony House for the Heritage of the Holocaust was established on the moshav in 2009.[5]

Notable residents

• Ofir Ben Shitrit, Orthodox Jewish singer[6]
• Yehuda Saado, Israeli singer

References

1. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
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. 80. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
3. Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. p. xxii, settlement #130. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
4. Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel (1992) Children of the Flames Penguin Books
5. Bnei Akiva celebrates museum's recognition of its pre-state work in UK The Jerusalem Post
6. Brown, Elicia (17 December 2013). "The Sound and the Fury". The New York Jewish Week. Retrieved 17 June 2018.