{"id":8499,"date":"2025-10-17T23:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakbamemorymuseum.org\/en\/?p=8499"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:45:26","slug":"ben-ami-colony-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakbamemorymuseum.org\/en\/2025\/10\/17\/ben-ami-colony-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Ami Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ben Ami is an agricultural settlement located in the northern region of occupied Palestine, adjacent to Nahariya. As of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>2022<\/span><\/span>, the number of settlers residing in the settlement was\u00a0<\/span><\/span>768<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span><\/span>moshav<\/span><\/span>\u00a0was established in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>1949<\/span><\/span> by demobilised soldiers on land that had belonged to the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>depopulated Palestinian villages of al-<\/span><\/span>Nahr<\/span><\/span> and Umm al-Faraj<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ben Ami was among the settlements targeted by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Katyusha rockets<\/span><\/span>\u00a0launched by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Hezbollah<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>14 July 2006<\/span><\/span>\u00a0during the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>2006 Lebanon War<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sources:<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Hebrew sources were used: the colony\u2019s Hebrew-language website, the <\/span><\/span>Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics<\/span><\/span>, and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Palestine Remembered<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(entries on the villages of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>al-<\/span><\/span>Nahr<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Umm al-Faraj<\/span><\/span>).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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