Shilat
Moshav in Israel and the Latrun salient
title: "Shilat" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["moshavim", "populated-places-established-in-1977", "populated-places-in-central-district-(israel)", "1977-establishments-in-israel"] description: "Moshav in Israel and the Latrun salient" topic_path: "geography/israel" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilat" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Moshav in Israel and the Latrun salient ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox Kibbutz"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Shilat |
| image | Shilat The forty five monument גלעד המ-ה.jpg |
| caption | Memorial to 45 fallen soldiers |
| hebname | |
| foundation | July 1977 |
| founded_by | HaOved HaTzioni farmers |
| district | center |
| council | Hevel Modi'in |
| affiliation | HaOved HaTzioni |
| popyear | |
| population | |
| population_footnotes | |
| pushpin_map | Israel center ta |
| coordinates | |
| website | www.shilat.co.il |
| :: |
| name = Shilat | image = Shilat The forty five monument גלעד המ-ה.jpg | caption = Memorial to 45 fallen soldiers | hebname = | foundation = July 1977 | founded_by =HaOved HaTzioni farmers | district = center | council = Hevel Modi'in | affiliation = HaOved HaTzioni | popyear = | population = | population_footnotes= | pushpin_map=Israel center ta |pushpin_mapsize=250 |pushpin_label_position = top | coordinates = | website = www.shilat.co.il
Shilat () is a moshav partially in Israel and partially in the Latrun salient of the Green Line. Located around a kilometre north of Modi'in, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In it had a population of .
The Shilat Junction, at the intersection of Route 443 and Route 446, is the main northern entrance to Modi'in and the site of an industrial park which houses many commercial establishments as well as light industry.
History
The moshav was established in July 1977 by 25 families on land that had belonged the Palestinian village of Shilta, which was depopulated in 1948. After the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel expropriated 781 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of Saffa for the construction of Shilat.
References
References
- Khalidi, Walid. (1992). "All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948". Institute for Palestine Studies.
- [http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Saffa_vp_en.pdf Saffa village profile], ARIJ, p. 17
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