Komemiyut

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title: "Komemiyut" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["moshavim", "religious-israeli-communities", "populated-places-established-in-1950", "populated-places-in-southern-district-(israel)", "1950-establishments-in-israel"] description: "Moshav in southern Israel" topic_path: "geography/israel" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komemiyut" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Moshav in southern Israel ::

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Field	Value
name	Komemiyut
hebname	קוממיות
meaning	Sovereignty
image	File:Komemiyut Aerial View.jpg
caption	View of Komemiyut
founded	1950
founded_by	Demobilised soldiers
country
district	south
council	Shafir
popyear
population
population_footnotes
pushpin_map	Israel ashkelon#Israel
pushpin_mapsize	250
pushpin_label_position	top
coordinates
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Komemiyut () is a Hasidic moshav in south-central Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah near the city of Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

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The group which established the village was formed as a youth group by Agudat Israel in August 1949, composed mainly of demobilized soldiers from a religious unit that had fought in the area during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The name is taken from a biblical passage, Leviticus 26:13: "I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright".

After training in Nahalat Yehuda, the group founded the moshav in 1950 on land given to it by the Jewish National Fund. The village was built over the depopulated Palestinian village of Karatiyya.

The moshav was built as an agricultural village, but to ensure a livelihood during the shmita year, industries were also established. The moshav has two bakeries including a matzo bakery, a dairy, a shingles factory, a marble factory, and a tefillin factory. The moshav also has a program for yeshiva students, during which they study for six days and return to their homes only for shabbat and a Talmud Torah school for children.

Shmita harvest

As it was founded by observant Jews, the village was one of the few that refrained from working the land during the first Shmita year after independence, 1952.

References

References

1. (1993). "Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land". Carta.
2. "⁨דבר⁩ | עמוד 4 | 2 מאי 1949 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית".
3. (1992). "All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948". [[Institute for Palestine Studies]].
4. "⁨הצפה⁩ | עמוד 4 | 14 דצמבר 1953 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית".
5. "⁨דבר⁩ | עמוד 12 | 12 ספטמבר 1952 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית".
6. "⁨דבר⁩ | עמוד 8 | 24 אפריל 1959 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית".
7. Mordechai Kuber. (2007). "Shmittah for the Clueless". Jewish Action: The Magazine of the Orthodox Union.

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