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Ben Ami is an agricultural settlement located in the northern region of occupied Palestine, adjacent to Nahariya. As of 2022, the number of settlers residing in the settlement was 768.
The moshav was established in 1949 by demobilised soldiers on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian villages of al-Nahr and Umm al-Faraj.
Ben Ami was among the settlements targeted by Katyusha rockets launched by Hezbollah on 14 July 2006 during the 2006 Lebanon War.
Sources:
Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Hebrew sources were used: the colony’s Hebrew-language website, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, and Palestine Remembered (entries on the villages of al-Nahr and Umm al-Faraj).