- Sde Trumot
Sde Trumot (
Hebrew : שדי תרומות) is amoshav in theBeit She'an Valley in northernIsrael . It is located about 7 km south ofBeit She'an , andIsrael Highway 90 passes through it. It belongs to theBeit She'an Valley Regional Council .It was founded in 1951 by Jewish immigrants to Israel from
Iraq andKurdistan as part of theHapoel Hamizrachi movement.The name "Sde Trumot" is based on the lamentation of
David forSaul andJonathan who were killed in a war against thePhilistines on the nearbyMount Gilboa . The lamentation is recorded in the first chapter ofSamuel II . The words "Sde Trumot", meaning "a field of produce", appear in Samuel II, chapter 1, verse 21.The moshav is one of four moshavim in the "Bikurah" bloc. The others are
Revaya ,Rechov , andTel Teomim , which are all located nearby.The original inhabitants of the settlement worked in agriculture and cattle raising. Today some of them perform modern agriculture using greenhouses and other technology.
On 19 June 2003, a
suicide attack in the moshav killed the storekeeper, Avner Mordechai.Fact|date=December 2007
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