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Bnei Atarot (lit. Sons of Atarot) is a moshav
Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
 in central Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Located near Yehud
Yehud

Yehud is a city in the Center District of Israel in Israel. The population of Yehud was in 2007 approximately 25,600 ....
, around 15 kilometres east of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
, it is situated in fertile plain at the eastern rim of Tel Aviv metropolitan area next to Ben Gurion Airport and falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council
Hevel Modi'in Regional Council

Hevel Modi'in Regional Council is a regional council in central Israel. It was founded in 1950 and covers an area from Petah Tikva to Modi'in....
. In 2006 it had a population of 641.

Atarot is located on the site of the Templer
Templers (religious believers)

Templers are members of the Temple Society . It is a name they use in referring to themselves and their religious denomination. The word Temple here is derived from the concept of the Christian Community as described in the New Testament, see 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 1 Peter 2:5, where every person and the community are seen as temples in w...
 colony of Wilhelma
Wilhelma, Palestine

Wilhelma was a Germany Templers in Palestine.Established in 1902, and named in honour of William II, German Emperor, the village was abandoned during World War II when the German settlers in British Mandate of Palestine were arrested as enemy nationals and deported by the British....
, established in 1902, and named in honour of Wilhelm II
William II, German Emperor

Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia , ruling both the German Empire and the Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918....
.






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Bnei Atarot (lit. Sons of Atarot) is a moshav
Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
 in central Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Located near Yehud
Yehud

Yehud is a city in the Center District of Israel in Israel. The population of Yehud was in 2007 approximately 25,600 ....
, around 15 kilometres east of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
, it is situated in fertile plain at the eastern rim of Tel Aviv metropolitan area next to Ben Gurion Airport and falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council
Hevel Modi'in Regional Council

Hevel Modi'in Regional Council is a regional council in central Israel. It was founded in 1950 and covers an area from Petah Tikva to Modi'in....
. In 2006 it had a population of 641.

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Bnei Atarot is located on the site of the Templer
Templers (religious believers)

Templers are members of the Temple Society . It is a name they use in referring to themselves and their religious denomination. The word Temple here is derived from the concept of the Christian Community as described in the New Testament, see 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 1 Peter 2:5, where every person and the community are seen as temples in w...
 colony of Wilhelma
Wilhelma, Palestine

Wilhelma was a Germany Templers in Palestine.Established in 1902, and named in honour of William II, German Emperor, the village was abandoned during World War II when the German settlers in British Mandate of Palestine were arrested as enemy nationals and deported by the British....
, established in 1902, and named in honour of Wilhelm II
William II, German Emperor

Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia , ruling both the German Empire and the Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918....
. During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 the German settlers in Mandate Palestine were arrested as enemy nationals and deported by the British.

After the war ended, a new settlement was established by former residents of the abandoned moshav of Atarot
Atarot

Atarot was a moshav in the British Mandate of Palestine, north of Jerusalem along the Highway 60 . The village was captured and destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and is now the site of Atarot Airport and Jerusalem's largest industrial park....
 (which had been destroyed by the Arab Legion
Arab Legion

The Arab Legion was the regular army of Transjordan and then Jordan in the early part of the 20th Century....
), from which it took its name, as well as others from Nehalim
Nehalim

Nehalim is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located around four kilometres east of Petah Tikva, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council....
 in the Upper Galilee
Upper Galilee

The Upper Galilee is a geographical-political term in use since the end of the Second Temple period, originally referring to a mountainous area overlapping the present northern Israel and southern Lebanon, its borders being the Litani river in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Beit HaKerem valley and Lower Galilee in the south...
 and Be'erot Yitzhak
Be'erot Yitzhak

Be'erot Yitzhak is a religious kibbutz in central Israel. Located near Yehud, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council....
 in the Negev
Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The indigenous Negev Bedouin inhabitants of the region refer to the desert as al-Naqab ....
. It remained a farming community and most of the original houses were preserved. The community is centered along the main road.

The proximity of Tel Aviv metropolitan area has led to suburbanization
Suburbanization

Suburbanization is a term used to describe the process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe. It is one of the many causes of the increase in urban sprawl....
 and rural character of the village gradually decreased. In the late 1990s a new residential neighborhood was built on the northeastern edge of the moshav, consisting of private homes. Recently, the proximity of Ben Gurion International Airport
Ben Gurion International Airport

Ben Gurion International Airport The airport is located near the city of Lod, 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv. It is operated by the Israel Airports Authority, a government-owned corporation that manages all public airports and Border controls in the State of Israel....
 has led to some residents being evacuated due to noise concerns.

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