Goren

Place in Northern, Israel

Goren 33°3′24″N 35°14′21″E / 33.05667°N 35.23917°E / 33.05667; 35.23917
Country	Israel
District	Northern
Council	Ma'ale Yosef
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1950
Founded by	Yemenite immigrants
Population (2022)^[1]	424

Goren (Hebrew: גֹּרֶן, גורן, lit. 'Granary') is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Western Galilee near Ma'alot-Tarshiha, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 424.^[1]

History

It is located on the land that had belonged to the Palestinian village of Iqrit, as its inhabitants had been ethnically cleansed during the Nakba.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
^ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 17. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.