Talmei Yaffe

Talmei Yaffe is a small settlement in southern occupied Palestine, located near Ashkelon. It was established in 1950 as a kibbutz by Zionist immigrants from Poland and Romania, on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Barbara. The settlement was named after Leib Yaffe, the Director General of the Keren Hayesod organization, who was killed in a car bombing at the Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem in 1948.

In 1961, Talmei Yaffe was converted into a moshav shitufi (a cooperative agricultural community). In 2005, several families evacuated from settlements in Gush Katif were resettled in Talmei Yaffe following the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

As of 2021, the number of settlers in Talmei Yaffe was 810.

Sources:
Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Hebrew sources were used, including the official settlement website and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics.
Information on the village of Barbara was referenced from Palestine Remembered.