Sde Trumot is a moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...

 in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel

Israel

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

. It is located about 7 km south of Beit She'an, and Israel Highway 90 passes through it. It belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council.

It was founded in 1951 by Jewish immigrants to Israel from Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 and Kurdistan as part of the Hapoel Hamizrachi

Hapoel HaMizrachi

Hapoel HaMizrachi |Mizrachi]] Workers) was a political party and settlement movement in Israel and is one of the predecessors of the National Religious Party.-History:...

 movement.

The name "Sde Trumot" is based on the lamentation of David

David

David was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible and, according to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, an ancestor of Jesus Christ through both Saint Joseph and Mary...

 for Saul

Saul

-People:Saul is a given/first name in English, the Anglicized form of the Hebrew name Shaul from the Hebrew Bible:* Saul , including people with this given namein the Bible:* Saul , a king of Edom...

 and Jonathan who were killed in a war against the Philistines

Philistines

Philistines , Pleshet or Peleset, were a people who occupied the southern coast of Canaan at the beginning of the Iron Age . According to the Bible, they ruled the five city-states of Gaza, Askelon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath, from the Wadi Gaza in the south to the Yarqon River in the north, but with...

 on the nearby Mount Gilboa. The lamentation is recorded in the first chapter of Samuel II. The words "Sde Trumot", meaning "fields of offerings" (of grain), appear in Samuel II, chapter 1, verse 21. The new settlers want to restore these fruitful fields of grain offerings.

The moshav is one of four moshavim in the "Bikurah" bloc. The others are Revaya

Revaya

Revaya is a moshav in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. It belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council. It is located about 6 km south of Beit She'an, near Sde Trumot, west of Israel Highway 90....

, Rechov, and Tel Teomim, which are all located nearby.

The original inhabitants of the settlement worked in agriculture and cattle raising. Today some of them perform modern agriculture using greenhouses and other technology.

On 19 June 2003, a suicide attack

Suicide attack

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in the moshav killed the storekeeper, Avner Mordechai.