Gederot Regional Council
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Gederot Regional Council is a regional council
Regional council (Israel)
Regional councils are one of the three types of local government entities found in Israel, with the other two being cities and local councils. As of 2003, there were 53 regional councils in Israel, usually responsible for governing a number of settlements spread across rural areas...

 in the Center District
Center District (Israel)
The Central District of Israel is one of six administrative districts, including most of the Sharon region. The district capital is Ramla. It is further divided into 4 sub-districts: Petah Tikva, Ramla, Sharon and Rehovot. The district's largest city is Rishon LeZion. Its population as of 2008 was...

 of Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. It is located between Ashdod, Yavne
Yavne
Yavne is a city in the Central District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2009 the city had a population of 33,000.-History:...

 and Gedera
Gedera
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 and covers an area of 13,000 dunam
Dunam
A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum, dynym, dulum was a non-SI unit of land area used in the Ottoman Empire and representing the amount of land that can be plowed in a day; its value varied from 900–2500 m²...

s. Founded in 1953, its population is 4,200.

It borders on Brenner Regional Council
Brenner Regional Council
Brenner Regional Council , is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. It is located in the coastal plain, in the vicinity of Rehovot and Yavne. The council is named after writer Yosef Haim Brenner, killed in the Jaffa riots of 1921....

 to the north, Hevel Yavne Regional Council
Hevel Yavne Regional Council
Hevel Yavne Regional Council is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. Founded in 1950, it covers 32,000 dunams and six religious communities...

 to the west, Be'er Tuvia Regional Council
Be'er Tuvia Regional Council
Be'er Tuvia Regional Council , is a regional council in the southern Coastal Plain region in Israel.It borders Yoav and Nahal Sorek regional councils in the east; Hof Ashkelon regional council, the Mediterranean Sea, the city of Ashdod and Gan Yavne local council in the west; Gederot, Hevel Yavne...

 and Gan Yavne
Gan Yavne
Gan Yavne is a in the Center District of Israel, located adjacent to the city of Ashdod. It was founded in 1931 and declared a local council in 1950.Gan Yavne lies east of the Tel-Aviv–Ashkelon highway...

 to the south, and the city of Gedera
Gedera
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 to the east.

List of settlements

The council covers six moshav
Moshav
Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...

im and one 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....

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  • Aseret
    Aseret
    Aseret is a communal settlement near Gedera on the coastal plain of south-central Israel. It belongs to the Gederot Regional Council. The word "Aseret" means ten, and the community is named after the ten members of Bilu who founded Gedera....

     (communal settlement)
  • Gan HaDarom
    Gan HaDarom
    Gan HaDarom is a moshav in southern Israel. Located on the coastal plain near Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council.-History:...

     (moshav)
  • 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...

     (moshav)
  • 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...

     (moshav)
  • 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....

     (moshav)
  • 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....

     (moshav)
  • 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...

    (moshav)

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