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Kisalon Colony is a moshav located in central occupied Palestine, near the settlement of Beit Shemesh. The first transit camp for newly arrived Zionist immigrants was established there in 1950, on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Kasla.
New immigrants from Yemen, brought to Palestine during Operation Magic Carpet, were allocated agricultural land in the area. However, after a few years, they left the moshav to join other members of the Yemeni community living in Rosh HaAyin. Jewish immigrants from Morocco later replaced them.
As of 2021, the Kisalon colony had 487 settlers.