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Beit Dagan
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “town”. Today it says “local council”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
"House of Grain ") is a town ( local council ) in the Central District of Israel , bordering Rishon LeZion .1 It was founded in 1948 at the site of the Arab village Bayt Dajan by Yemenite and North African immigrants. It is probably situated in the area of Biblical Beit Dagon, a village in the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:41). It was declared a local council in 1958. Its end of 2009 population was 6,800. A Compendium of Place Names in Israel compiled from various sources.2
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town
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local council
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