Gidona

Gidona

Gidona or Gid'onah ( _he. גִּדְעוֹנָה) is a communal settlement near Ma'ayan Harod in northern Israel. It belongs to the Gilboa Regional Council.

Gidona was founded in 1949 as a moshav of workers by immigrants to Israel from Yemen. Near the cemetery of the first settlers of Ein Harod and Tel Yosef.

In the 1960s the moshav became a communal settlement.

Gidona is named after the prophet Gidon, who selected his soldiers for the war against Midyan in the nearby land, as described in the Book of Judges.


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