Aseret is a communal settlement

Communal settlement (Israel)

A community settlement is a type of town in Israel. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the town's residents, who are organized in a cooperative, can veto a sale of a house or a business to an undesirable buyer....

 near Gedera

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 on the coastal plain of south-central Israel

Israel

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. It belongs to the Gederot Regional Council

Gederot Regional Council

Gederot Regional Council is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. It is located between Ashdod, Yavne and Gedera and covers an area of 13,000 dunams...

. The word "Aseret" means ten, and the community is named after the ten members of Bilu

Bilu

Bilu was a movement whose goal was the agricultural settlement of the Land of Israel. "Bilu" is an acronym based on a verse from the Book of Isaiah "בית יעקב לכו ונלכה" Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Venelkha...

 who founded Gedera.

The community was founded in 1954 as the municipal center of the Gederot Regional Council. It continues to serve this function today. Aseret is the center, both geographically and municipally, of the other six communities in the council: Meishar

Meishar

Meishar is a moshav near Gedera in the coastal plain of south-central Israel. It belongs to the Gederot Regional Council.The moshav was founded by immigrants to Israel from Germany and Poland in 1950....

, Misgav Dov

Misgav Dov

Misgav Dov is a moshav near Gedera in the coastal plain of south-central Israel. It belongs to the Gederot Regional Council. It is named after Dov Gruner, a member of the Irgun....

, Kfar Aviv

Kfar Aviv

Kfar Aviv is a moshav in the South District of Israel, near Ashdod. It belongs to the Gederot Regional Council.Kfar Aviv was founded in 1952 by the Jewish Agency. It was intended to absorb immigrants to Israel from Egypt. Its original name was Kfar HaYeor...

, Kfar Mordechai

Kfar Mordechai

Kfar Mordechai is a village in central Israel, located about 30 kilometers south of Tel Aviv, between Ashdod, Gedera and Yavne. The village was established in 1950 by British and South African Jews and by some ex-kibbutz members, near the ruins of a Palestinian Arab village called Bashshit...

, Shdema

Shdema

Shdema is a moshav near Gedera in the coastal plain of south-central Israel. It belongs to the Gederot Regional Council.The moshav was founded in 1954 to absorb immigrants to Israel from Persia...

 and Gan HaDarom

Gan HaDarom

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Aseret is built on the ruins of an Arab

Palestinian people

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 village Bashshit

Bashshit

Bashshit was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of Ramla about half a mile from Wadi Bashshit. Archaeological artifacts from the village attest to habitation in the Early Islamic period and 12th and 13th centuries CE...

, which was destroyed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

. There is an old grave that some people associate with Seth

Seth

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, the son of Adam in the Hebrew Bible

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