{{Short description|Community settlement in central Israel}} {{Infobox Israel village | name = Yad Binyamin | hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|יַד בִּנְיָמִין}} | arname = | image = Yad Binyamin Aerial View.jpg | caption = | meaning = Binyamin Memorial | founded = 1962 | founded_by = | district = center | council = Nahal Sorek | affiliation = | popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}} | population = {{Israel populations|Yad Binyamin}} | population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}} | pushpin_map = Israel center ta#Israel |pushpin_mapsize = 250 | pushpin_label_position = top | coordinates = {{coord|31|47|50|N|34|49|17|E|display=inline,title}} | area_dunam = | website = }} thumb|Yad Binyamin council '''Yad Binyamin''' ({{langx|he|יַד בִּנְיָמִין}}, lit. ''Binyamin Memorial'')<ref>For the derivation of "yad" (normally "hand") meaning a memorial, see {{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yad|title=Yad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226013921/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yad|archive-date=2022-12-26|access-date=2023-09-06 }}</ref> is a community settlement in central Israel. The seat of Nahal Sorek Regional Council, it is located adjacent to the junction of three major highways: Highway 3, Highway 6, and Highway 7. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Yad Binyamin}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
==History== thumb|Yad Binyamin cultural center
The land had been used as a Ma'abara Nativa which was abandoned as a religious settlement and educational center in 1962 by Poalei Agudat Yisrael, in partnership with the municipality of Nahal Sorek.<ref>{{cite web | title=ישוב קהילתי יד בנימין, גדרות | website=אתר הבית | date=2021-11-02 | url=https://www.homee.co.il/?s=5987 | language=he | access-date=2022-11-14 | archive-date=2022-11-14 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114030251/https://www.homee.co.il/?s=5987 | url-status=live }}</ref> It was named after the former Minister of Postal Services, Binyamin Mintz, who had died the previous year.<ref name="book">{{cite book |editor-last=Schacter |editor-first=Jacob J. |year=1992 |title=Reverence, Righteousness, and Rahamanut: Essays in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung |last=Jung |first=Leo |publisher=J. Aronson |isbn=9780876685914 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5vXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22yad+binyamin%22+memorial}}</ref> For many years, the community was a center of higher Jewish learning, based around the yeshiva.
Following the disengagement plan, around 200 families from Gush Katif moved into temporary pre-fabricated housing in Yad Binyamin. Some later moved to a new village named Ganei Tal after the former settlement by the same name.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel/1100-evacuee-families-to-stay-together |title=1,100 evacuee families to stay together |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |last1=Lazaroff |first1=Tovah |last2=Cashman |first2=Greer Fay |date=November 7, 2005 |access-date=April 24, 2019 |archive-date=April 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425000335/https://www.jpost.com/Israel/1100-evacuee-families-to-stay-together |url-status=live }}</ref> Many other families have moved to Netzer Hazani.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shomron |first=Shifra |title=New Beginnings: Netzer Harani |url=https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/new-beginnings-netzer-hazani/2013/10/05/ |access-date=April 24, 2019 |newspaper=The Jewish Press |date=October 5, 2013 |archive-date=April 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425003341/https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/new-beginnings-netzer-hazani/2013/10/05/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The community has a neighborhood, called [https://ahuzatyonatan.co.il/en/ Ahuzat Yonatan], that is for people ages 55 and older. The neighborhood has approximately 160 apartments as well as a shared building containing a synagogue.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ahuzatyonatan.co.il/en/ |website=Ahuzat Yonatan sales page |access-date=19 December 2023 |title=Ahuzat Yonatan | Yad Binyamin }}</ref>
==Transportation== Yad Binyamin is located {{convert|3|km|mi}} from the Re'em Junction on Highway 3, and one kilometer from the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 7. In September 2018, Israel Railways opened the nearby Kiryat Malachi-Yoav station, connecting the area to the Nahariyah–Beersheba line.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ma-soreq.org.il/%d7%a0%d7%a4%d7%aa%d7%97%d7%94-%d7%aa%d7%97%d7%a0%d7%aa-%d7%94%d7%a8%d7%9b%d7%91%d7%aa-%d7%9e%d7%9c%d7%90%d7%9b%d7%99-%d7%99%d7%95%d7%90%d7%91/|title=נפתחה תחנת הרכבת מלאכי יואב|date=2018-09-18|website=מועצה אזורית נחל שורק|language=he-IL|access-date=2019-07-24}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A number of Egged bus routes provide transport links to Jerusalem, Ashkelon, and other cities.
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==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.facebook.com/groups/346480398805924/}}
{{Nahal Sorek Regional Council}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Community settlements Category:Religious Israeli communities Category:Populated places established in 1962 Category:1962 establishments in Israel Category:Populated places in Central District (Israel)