Nurit was a 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...

 on Gilboa Mountain in northern Israel

Israel

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

. It belongs to the Gilboa Regional Council

Gilboa Regional Council

Gilboa Regional Council is a regional council in northern Israel, located on the slopes of the Gilboa mountain range. There are more than 22,000 residents in 38 settlements as of 2007...

.

The moshav was founded in 1950 by immigrants to Israel from Yemen

Yemen

The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....

. It is named after the nearby Arab village Nuris

Nuris

Nuris was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jenin. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 29, 1948 under Operation Gideon.-Location:...

, which lies in the adjacent valley. The Arab village was captured on May 29, 1948, during the Israeli War of Independence.

The residents of the moshav abandoned it after nine years, except for one woman who continued to live there until the early 1970s.

In 1962 the place became a Gadna

Gadna (Israel)

Gadna is an Israeli military program to prepare youth for their mandatory military service in the Israel Defense Forces or Border Police. A one week program of discipline and military learning run mostly by soldiers of the Nahal infantry brigade, as well as by soldiers recruited and trained...

army base, and it remains so today (as of 2006).