Nitzanim
Kibbutz in southern Israel
title: "Nitzanim" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["kibbutzim", "populated-places-established-in-1943", "jewish-villages-depopulated-during-the-1948-arab–israeli-war", "populated-places-in-southern-district-(israel)", "1943-establishments-in-mandatory-palestine"] description: "Kibbutz in southern Israel" topic_path: "geography/israel" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitzanim" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Kibbutz in southern Israel ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox Israel village"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Nitzanim |
| hebname | |
| foundation | 1943 |
| founded_by | Holocaust survivors |
| district | south |
| council | Hof Ashkelon |
| affiliation | HaOved HaTzioni |
| popyear | |
| population | |
| population_footnotes | |
| pushpin_map | Israel ashkelon |
| coordinates | |
| website | www.knitzanim.com |
| :: |
| name = Nitzanim | hebname = | image = | caption= | foundation = 1943 | founded_by = Holocaust survivors | district = south | council = Hof Ashkelon | affiliation = HaOved HaTzioni | popyear = | population = | population_footnotes= | pushpin_map = Israel ashkelon |pushpin_mapsize= 250 | coordinates = | website = www.knitzanim.com
Nitzanim () is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located between Ashkelon and Ashdod on the Nitzanim dunes, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
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Nitzanim was established on 8 December 1943 on a 400-acre plot of land purchased by the Jewish National Fund in 1942. On the grounds is a large building that became known as the "mansion." The first residents were new immigrants, some of them Holocaust survivors.
The kibbutz was bombarded and captured by the Egyptian army during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in the Battle of Nitzanim. Of Nitzanim's 141 members, 37 were killed and many were taken prisoner.
Following the war, the kibbutz was moved four kilometres south of the original location, onto the land of the newly depopulated Palestinian village of Hamama.
The original site of the kibbutz became Nitzanim Youth Village in 1949. After the youth village closed in 1990, the community settlement of Nitzan was founded there. File:ניצנים - נחלת ס.זלצמן, דונידין, זילנד החדשה 100 דונם-JNF040431.jpeg|Nitzanim 1945 File:ניצנים - עבודה בחריש.-JNF045691.jpeg|Nitzanim ploughing 1945 File:ניצנים - מראה כללי.-JNF045230.jpeg|Nitzanim 1947 File:Nitzanim bombarded.jpg|Homes in Nitzanim destroyed in the Arab–Israeli War
References
References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071006063426/http://www.shimur.org/english/article.php?id=17 Women of Valor Center - Nitzanim]. Society for the Preservation of Israel Heritage sites
- [http://www.gemsinisrael.com/e_article000012012.htm Nitzanim Beach] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-06-01 Gems in Israel)
- [http://www.israelinsideout.com/South-of-Tel-Aviv/historical-sites-in-nitzan.html Historical sites in Nitzan] Israel Inside Out
- (1992). "All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948". [[Institute for Palestine Studies]].
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