Kedma, Israel
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| Coordinates: 31°42′4.67″N 34°46′32.15″E / 31.7012972°N 34.7755972°ECoordinates: 31°42′4.67″N 34°46′32.15″E / 31.7012972°N 34.7755972°E | |
| District | Southern |
| Council | Yoav |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Population (2015)[1] | 73 |
Kedma (Hebrew: קֵדְמָה) is a youth village in south-central Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 73.
History
Kedma was founded as a kibbutz as part of the 11 points in the Negev campaign in 1946. It was founded on land traditionally belonging to the Arab village of Summil.[2] After 1948, it also started to farm some of the land belonging to Bil'in.[3]
Because of social and economic difficulties the kibbutz was abandoned at the end of the 1960s, and it became later on a youth village. The group that founded the community planned originally to locate it near Netanya or the northwest shores of the Dead Sea, but after the latter was captured by the Jordanian army, they moved to the present-day location.
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- ↑ "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 137, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
- ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 91, ISBN 0-88728-224-5