Gibton

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Gibton

Gibton (lit. Finch) 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 Rehovot

Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
, it falls under the jurisdiction of Brenner Regional Council

Brenner Regional Council

Brenner Regional Council , is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. It is located in the Shephelah, in the vicinity of Rehovot and Yavne....
. In 2006 it had a population of 299.

It was founded in 1933 as part of the Settlement of the Thousand

Settlement of the Thousand

The Settlement of the Thousand refers to two separate Zionism schemes to settle Jewish families on farms in British Mandate of Palestine. The first started in September 1926, the second in 1932....
plan. The plan aimed to establish small agricultural settlements around the larger towns and help defend them against Arab rioters

1929 Palestine riots

The 1929 Palestine riots refers to a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence....
. It was named after an ancient town in the territory of the Tribe of Dan

Tribe of Dan

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Dan was one of the twelve Israelites.Following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes after about 1200 BCE, Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes....
which is mentioned in the Tanakh

Tanakh

The Tanakh is the Bible used in Judaism. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew language Acronym and initialism formed from the initial Hebrew alphabet of the Tanakh's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah , Nevi'im and Ketuvim - hence TaNaKh....
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