Nordia ( Hebrew : נוֹרְדִיָּה ) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya and the HaSharon Junction , it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council . In 2022 it had a population of 1,991.
7-472: Before the 20th century the area formed part of the Forest of Sharon and was part of the lands of the village of Khirbat Bayt Lid . It was an open woodland dominated by Mount Tabor Oak , which extended from Kfar Yona in the north to Ra'anana in the south. The local Arab inhabitants traditionally used the area for pasture, firewood and intermittent cultivation. The intensification of settlement and agriculture in
14-412: The 1931 census to 298 Muslim, in a total of 75 houses. In the 1945 statistics the population of Khirbat Bayt Lid was 460 Muslims with a total of 5,336 dunams of land, of which 2,969 were owned by Arabs, 2,220 by Jews and 147 was public lands. Of this, Arabs used 64 dunams for irrigated and plantation land, 2,877 for cereals, while 22 dunams were classified as built-up areas. In early 1948
21-564: The Herut movement, on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Khirbat Bayt Lid , The founders came from two units – Margolim based in Kfar Yona and Wedgwood (named after Josiah Wedgwood ) based in Mishmar HaYarden . In 1994 a new neighborhood, Neot Nordia, was established. Khirbat Bayt Lid Khirbat Bayt Lid ( Arabic : خربة بيت لد ) was a Palestinian Arab village in
28-531: The Tulkarm Subdistrict . It was depopulated by its Arab inhabitants during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War . In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the residents of Beit Lid an agricultural plot of land called in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar. Al-Ghaba) in the coastal plain, west of the village. The people of Beit Lid than came to farm the lower plain village land. Gradually they settled in
35-640: The coastal plain during the 19th century led to deforestation and subsequent environmental degradation. In 1926 the American Zion Commonwealth announced plans to establish a new agricultural settlement to be named "Nordia" in memory of the Zionist leader Max Nordau . Land was sold in the United States for this purpose, but the plan did not come to fruition. Nordia was founded on 2 November 1948 by demobilised Irgun and Betar soldiers, members of
42-485: The village so they could be closer to their land. 500 meters north of Khirbat Bayt Lid was El Mughair , which was described in 1882 by PEF 's Survey of Western Palestine as "a small mud hamlet, with caves. The water supply is from springs a mile to the west." In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities , Kherbet Bait Lid had a population of 206 Muslims , increasing in
49-513: The villagers grew fearful over news about fighting, and left for Beit Lid , where they had relatives, believing that they would return in some weeks. According to one villager, Husni 'Abd al-Latif 'Atawat; "They left all their belongings in Khirbat Bayt Lid. The Jews occupied it, and they could not return." The Moshav Nordia was established on village land in August 1948, while Ganot Hadar
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