Revaya
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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.
The moshav was founded in 1952 by the Hapoel Hamizrachi
organization. It was settled by immigrants to Israel from Iraq
and Morocco
. It also accepted some Ethiopian Jews who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s.
Originally the moshav was named "P'rona B", corresponding to the adjacent "P'rona" (Tel Rehov). The name was changed to Revaya, corresponding to the nearby Revaya spring. (The Hebrew word "revaya" means "overflowing" or "saturated".)
As of 2000, Revaya encompassed about 2,000 dunam
of area, and had a population of 200 people.
The moshav is one of four settlements in a group: Revaya, Sde Trumot
, Tel Teomim, and Rehov
. These four settlements were established near one another and form a group together.
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 belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council. It is located about 6 km south of Beit She'an, near Sde Trumot
Sde Trumot
Sde Trumot is a moshav in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. It is located about 7 km south of Beit She'an, and Israel Highway 90 passes through it...
, west of Israel Highway 90.
The moshav was founded in 1952 by 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:...
organization. It was settled by 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 Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
. It also accepted some Ethiopian Jews who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s.
Originally the moshav was named "P'rona B", corresponding to the adjacent "P'rona" (Tel Rehov). The name was changed to Revaya, corresponding to the nearby Revaya spring. (The Hebrew word "revaya" means "overflowing" or "saturated".)
As of 2000, Revaya encompassed about 2,000 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...
of area, and had a population of 200 people.
The moshav is one of four settlements in a group: Revaya, Sde Trumot
Sde Trumot
Sde Trumot is a moshav in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. It is located about 7 km south of Beit She'an, and Israel Highway 90 passes through it...
, Tel Teomim, and Rehov
Rehov
Rehov , meaning "broad", "wide place", was an important Bronze and Iron Age city located at Tel Rehov , an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley, Israel, approximately 5 km south of Beit She'an and 3 km west of the Jordan River...
. These four settlements were established near one another and form a group together.