Mishmeret

Mishmeret
Founded	1946
Founded by	Demobbed soldiers
Council	Lev HaSharon
Region	Sharon plain
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Coordinates	32°13′43.32″N 34°55′17.4″E / 32.2287°N 34.9215°E / 32.2287; 34.9215Coordinates: 32°13′43.32″N 34°55′17.4″E / 32.2287°N 34.9215°E / 32.2287; 34.9215
Mishmeret

Mishmeret (Hebrew: מִשְׁמֶרֶת‎‎, lit. Position or Post) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya and the HaSharon Junction and covering 3,800 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In 2009 it had a population of 972.^[1]

The village was founded in 1946 by demobilised soldiers from the British Army near the Arab village of Miska. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the community moved to Herut, 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^{[citation needed]}, exports sweet potatoes and other vegetables^[2].

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.^[3] According to Khalidi^[4], the lands on which Mishmeret was found in 1946 were owned by the Miska village.

References

1. ^ Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Population Database 2009 (קובץ הישובים 2009)
2. ^ Carmy Agricultural Product Ltd., Moshav Mishmeret (Company's website)
3. ^ El Eini, 2006, p.299
4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 558

Bibliography

• Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0887282245 

• El-Eini, Roza (2006), Mandated landscape: British imperial rule in Palestine, 1929-1948, Psychology Press, ISBN 9780714654263