Nofeh ( Heb. נופך ) is a communal agricultural settlement located in the central part of Israel a few kilometers south of the city of Petah Tikva . Hevel Modiin [1] is administratively related to the regional council.
| Community settlement | |
| Nofeh | |
|---|---|
| Heb. נופך | |
| A country |  Israel |
| District | Central |
| History and geography | |
| Based | 1949 |
| Height above sea level | |
| Timezone | UTC + 2 , in the summer UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | 553 people ( 2018 ) |
| Nationalities | the Jews |
| nofech.org.il (Hebrew) | |
History
The area of modern Nofeha was inhabited over the last millennium. In these places, preserved buildings of the era of the Crusades and the period of the Mamluk rule, as well as the later period of Ottoman rule . Some of them still serve as housing, others were discovered during excavations carried out in the vicinity of Nofeh by the Israel Antiquities Authority in 2009 . [2]
The modern moshav Nofeh was founded in 1949 by immigrants from Morocco in the territory of the abandoned Arab village of Rantia. Its name is taken from one of the 12 stones in the breast breastplate of the Jewish high priest . Moshav Beit-Arif, which was founded not far from it, was also originally named after one of the breastplate stones (Ahlam), before adopting its current name. [3]
Population
According to the Central Statistical Bureau of Israel , the population at the beginning of 2018 was 553 people [4] .
Notes
- ↑ List of localities of the Hevel-Modiin Regional Council Archival copy of March 20, 2012 on the Wayback Machine (Hebrew)
- Official site (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is March 14, 2012. Archived March 21, 2012.
- ↑ Nofeh on the website of the Hevel-Modiin Regional Council (Hebrew)
- ↑ Official data on Israeli settlements as of December 31, 2017 (Hebrew) . Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel . The appeal date is December 27, 2018.