Sanoach

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Sanoach
Basic data
hebrew : זָנוֹחַ
State : IsraelIsrael Israel
District : Jerusalem
Founded : 1950
Coordinates : 31 ° 44 '  N , 35 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 31 ° 43 '56 "  N , 34 ° 59' 57"  E
 
Residents : 7543 (as of 2018)
 
Community code : 0472
Time zone : UTC + 2
Sanoach (Israel)
Sanoach
Sanoach

Sanoach ( Hebrew זָנוֹחַ Zanoah , English Zanoah ) is an Israeli moshav in the regional administration Mateh Yehuda in Jerusalem District . The place is located near the city of Bet Shemesh and has 506 inhabitants (as of 2018).

history

The moshav was founded in 1950 by Jewish Yemenis who were flown to Israel in 1949 and 1950 under the code name Operation magic carpet . The settlement was named after the biblical city of Sanoach ( Josua 15.34  EU ) ( Josua 15.56  EU ) ( Nehemia 3.13  EU ) ( Nehemia 11.30  EU ), the ruins of which are on a hill in the south of the moshav.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 323.
  4. ↑ Martin Gehlen in: Der Tagesspiegel , July 14, 2009
  5. ↑ Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land , Carta, Jerusalem 1993, p. 481.

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