Magdiel

Magdiel (Hebrew: מגדיאל‎‎), founded in 1924 in the Yishuv of Mandate Palestine. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Magdiel had a population of 740, in 184 houses. Magdiel is one of the four original communities of Jewish agriculturalists that combined in 1964 to form Hod Hasharon, Israel.

Magdiel was established as a moshava, starting on 4,000 dunams of land purchased near the Arab village of Biyar 'Adas. The initial population included Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland and Lithuania, later joined by a group from the Netherlands. In 1964, four villages - Magdiel, Ramatayim, Hadar, and Ramat Hadar - merged to become Hod Hasharon.

The place "name is symbolic Meged El (= the oil of God)" and appears in the Tanach/Old Testament. Magdiel was the name of an Edomite clan (possibly the name of an eponymous chieftain) mentioned in Genesis 36:43. Its invocation of El may show that that deity was worshipped in Edom, along with Kaus and others.

Magdiel is the location of a Youth Aliyah boarding school of that name that took in young survivors of the Holocaust. Other schools there include a comprehensive secondary school and a technical vocational boarding school of the ORT educational network.

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