Ram-On is a moshav ovdim located in the Ta'anakh region, south of the Jezreel Valley

Jezreel Valley

-Etymology:The Jezreel Valley takes its name from the ancient city of Jezreel which was located on a low hill overlooking the southern edge of the valley, though some scholars think that the name of the city originates from the name of the clan which founded it, and whose existence is mentioned in...

 in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. It belongs to the Gilboa Regional Council

Gilboa Regional Council

Gilboa Regional Council is a regional council in northern Israel, located on the slopes of the Gilboa mountain range. There are more than 22,000 residents in 38 settlements as of 2007...

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Ram-On was founded in 1953 by children of families from moshavim around Israel. They originally settled in Nurit

Nurit

Nurit was a moshav on Gilboa Mountain in northern Israel. It belongs to the Gilboa Regional Council.The moshav was founded in 1950 by immigrants to Israel from Yemen. It is named after the nearby Arab village Nuris, which lies in the adjacent valley...

 on the Gilboa

Gilboa

Gilboa is a Hebrew word and the name of several places:*Mount Gilboa, a biblical locale in Israel, where king saul's sons were killed by the philistines, and saul took his own life...

 mountain. In 1961 the community moved from Gilboa mountain to the present-day location of Ram-On.

There is a factory in the moshav that manufactures thermoplastic

Thermoplastic

Thermoplastic, also known as a thermosoftening plastic, is a polymer that turns to a liquid when heated and freezes to a very glassy state when cooled sufficiently...

 materials.

The moshav is named after Ram On Paldi, one of the founders of the community, who was killed in southern Israel in 1957.