Bene Darom
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Bnei Darom בְּנֵי דָּרוֹם |
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 Bnei Darom
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| Coordinates: 31°49′13.43″N 34°41′31.2″E / 31.8203972°N 34.692000°ECoordinates: 31°49′13.43″N 34°41′31.2″E / 31.8203972°N 34.692000°E | |
| District | Central |
| Council | Hevel Yavne |
| Affiliation | Religious Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Founded by | Former residents of Kfar Darom |
| Population (2015) | 671 |
| Website | www.bnei-darom.com |
Bnei Darom (Hebrew: בְּנֵי דָּרוֹם, lit. Sons of the South) is a religious moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located near the Mediterranean coast, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 671.
Bnei Darom was established in 1949 by members of the gar'in group Netivot Kfar Darom who had been forced out of Kibbutz Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip when it was occupied by the Egyptian Army during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. They were joined by another gar'in group, Morasha from the United States, though most of its members were not prepared for the kibbutz-style life in a moshav shitufi and left, some of them to form Beit Hazon. Originally affiliated with Hapoel HaMizrachi, it joined the Religious Kibbutz Movement as a moshav shitufi in 2007.
According to Walid Khalidi, Bnei Darom was founded on land belonging to Isdud. However, according to Andrew Petersen, it was on land belonging to the depopulated Arab village of Arab Suqrir, with the remains of a khan located in a wooded park next to the modern water tower. The khan ruins were first described by Victor Guérin, who inspected them in 1863, and who wrote the following description:
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