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Kfar Ruth

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “moshav in israel”. Today it says “israeli settlement organised as a moshav”.
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Israeli moshav in the former no-man's land between Israel and the West Bank Place in Central Kfar Ruth ( Hebrew : כְּפַר רוּת , lit. ' Ruth's Village ' ) is an Israeli settlement organised as a moshav . It was established in 1977 in an area that had become a no-man's land between Israel and Jordanian -controlled West Bank at the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , before becoming part of the Israeli-occupied territories in the 1967 Six-Day War . It falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council and had a population of 402 in 2024. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics .

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moshav in israel

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israeli settlement organised as a moshav

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