Mishmeret 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 central Israel

Israel

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

. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya

Netanya

Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...

 and the HaSharon Junction

HaSharon Junction

The HaSharon Junction , commonly known as Beit Lid Junction , is an important road junction in the Sharon region of Israel. It intersects Highway 4 and Highway 57...

 and covering 3,800 dunam

Dunam

A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum, dynym, dulum was a non-SI unit of land area used in the Ottoman Empire and representing the amount of land that can be plowed in a day; its value varied from 900–2500 m²...

s, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council

Lev HaSharon Regional Council

Lev HaSharon Regional Council is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. The council was established in 1984, unifying Hadar HaSharon and Northern Sharon regional councils, and covers 18 villages with a total area of 57,000 dunams and a population of 13,600.It borders Hefer Valley...

. In 2009 it had a population of 972.

The village was founded in 1946 by demobilised

Demobilization

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 soldiers from the British Army

British Army

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 near the Arab

Arab

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 village of Miska

Miska

Miska was a Palestinian village, located fifteen kilometers southwest of Tulkarem, depopulated in 1948.-History:Miska was founded by descendants of the Arabian tribe of Miskain in the 7th century Islamic conquest of Palestine....

. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

 the community moved to Herut

Herut, Israel

Herut is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Tel Mond, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In 2007 it had a population of 1,200....

, and was re-established after the war on its present site. Its name symbolises the steadfast courage of the Jewish ex-British soldiers who defended the land from the Arabs. Today the moshav farms chickens, flowers, exports sweet potatoes and other vegetables.

Land Ownership Disputes

During the British Mandate The Case of the Miska Village Lands was heard by the Haifa Land Court for 7 years (1932-1939), with unknown outcome. According to Khalidi, the lands on which Mishmeret was found in 1946 were owned by the Miska village.