Rehovot subdistrict נפת רחובות قضاء رحوفوت | |
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Subdistrict | |
 Central District in blue, with Rehovot Subdistrict in dark blue | |
| Country |  Israel |
| District | Central |
| Area | |
| • Total | 324 km2 (125 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) [1] | |
| • Total | 586,900 |
| Ethnicity | |
| • Jews and others | 99.8% |
| • Arabs | 0.2% |
The Rehovot subdistrict is one of Israel's subdistricts in Central District. [2] The principal city of the subdistrict is, as the name implies, Rehovot.
The subdistrict is composed mostly of the western half of what has been, during Mandatory Palestine, the Ramle Subdistrict.
The Central District of Israel is one of six administrative districts, including most of the Sharon region. It is further divided into four sub-districts: Petah Tikva, Ramla, Sharon, and Rehovot. The district's largest city is Rishon LeZion. The district's population as of 2017 was 2,115,800. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, 88% of the population is Jewish, 8.2% is Arab, and 4% are "non-classified", being mostly former Soviet Union immigrants of partial or nominal Jewish ethnic heritage or household members of Jews.
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Brenner Regional Council, is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. It is located in the westernmost portion of the Shephelah, in the vicinity of Rehovot and Yavne. The council is named after writer Yosef Haim Brenner, killed in the Jaffa riots of 1921.
Nahal Sorek Regional Council is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. The seat of the council is Yad Binyamin. The council is named for the Sorek stream.
Route 411, is the designation of a regional route in the Shephelah region in Israel running southeasterly consolidating previous local roads and new construction. The western section begins at Highway 42 near Kfar Gevirol in western Rehovot and continues just past Route 410. The central section, completed in June 2014, continues to the entrance of Kvutzat Shiller. The eastern section begins just short of Highway 40 south of Rehovot and terminates at Highway 3 towards Jerusalem, bypassing the towns of Kiryat Ekron and Mazkeret Batya.
The Ramle Subdistrict was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was part of Lydda District of the British Mandate of Palestine. The sub-district's main city was Ramle. Its total population in 1944 was estimated at 123,490, of which 88,560 were Muslims; 29,420 were Jews; and 5,500 were Christians. A number of Palestinian Arab villages in the subdistrict were depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War, both by Jewish forces prior to the Israeli declaration of independence and after by Israeli forces. Following the war the area that had made up Ramla Subdistrict became a part of Israel's Central District, being mostly subdivided between a newly created Ramla Subdistrict and Rehovot Subdistrict.
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