Or HaNer

Or HaNer
Founded	1957
Founded by	Former Giv'ot Zaid residents and Argentine immigrants
Council	Sha'ar HaNegev
Region	Northern Negev
Affiliation	Kibbutz Movement
Coordinates	31°33′27″N 34°36′7.19″E / 31.5575°N 34.6019972°E / 31.5575; 34.6019972Coordinates: 31°33′27″N 34°36′7.19″E / 31.5575°N 34.6019972°E / 31.5575; 34.6019972
Population	476[1] (2008)
Or HaNer

Or HaNer (Hebrew: אוֹר הַנֵּר‎‎, lit. Light of the Candle) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located near Sderot, it fall under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. Its name is taken from the Sanhedrin tractate of the Babylonian Talmud.^[2]

The village was established in 1955–57 as a farm belonging to the Yitzur UFitu'ah company. The founders were from the gar'in of the Gordoniya, Dror and HeHalutz movements, most of whom were immigrants from Argentina and Chile. Many of them originally came from the kibbutz Giv'ot Zaid.^[2]

The village is founded on the land of the depopulated Arab Palestinian village of Najd, to the northeast of the village site.^[3]

In 2008 it had a population of 476.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Locality File" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2008. http://www.cbs.gov.il/ishuvim/ishuv2008/bycode.xls. Retrieved 2010-06-25. 
2. ^ ^{a b} HaReuveni, Immanuel (1999). Lexicon of the Land of Israel. Miskal Yedioth Ahronoth Books. p. 23. ISBN 965-448-413-7.  (Hebrew)
3. ^ Khalidi, 1992, All That Remains, p. 128.