Misgav Dov

Misgav Dov משגב דב‎
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Coordinates: 31°49′12″N 34°44′25″E
Country	Israel
District	Central
Council	Gederot
Affiliation	Mishkei Herut Beitar
Founded	1950
Founded by	Herut members
Population  (2022)[1]	736

Misgav Dov (Hebrew: מִשְׂגַּב דֹּב, lit. Dov's Fortress) is a moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Gedera in the coastal plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 736.

History

The moshav was founded though the Mishkei Herut Beitar settlement movement by Herut members from Haifa in 1950 on land that had belonged to the Ottoman-Palestine-Arab village of Bashshit.^[2][3]

It was named after Dov Gruner, a member of the Irgun who was executed by the British authorities. The founders were later joined by new immigrants from Iraq, Poland and the Soviet Union.^[2]

References

1. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
2. Misgav Dov Gederot Regional Council
3. Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 363. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.