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Kidron, Israel

Kidron
קִדְרוֹן‎
Kidron is located in Central Israel
Kidron
Kidron
Coordinates: 31°48′48″N 34°47′50″E / 31.81333°N 34.79722°E / 31.81333; 34.79722
CountryIsrael
DistrictCentral
CouncilBrenner
AffiliationMoshavim Movement
Founded1949
Founded byYugoslavian immigrants
Population
 (2023)[1]
1,626
Websitewww.kidron.org.il

Kidron (Hebrew: קִדְרוֹן) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah just east of Gedera, and near the Tel Nof Airbase, it falls under the jurisdiction of Brenner Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,626.[1]

Kidron community center

History

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The moshav was established in 1949 by a group of Jewish immigrants from Yugoslavia. It was named for the Kidron Valley.[2] They were later joined by Jewish immigrants from Romania.

It was established on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Qatra, which became depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  2. ^ Yuval Elʻazari, ed. (2005). Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. p. 471. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
  3. ^ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. pp. 404–5. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  4. ^ Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. xxi, settlement #76. ISBN 0-521-00967-7.