Rehovot Subdistrict

Rehovot subdistrict

נפת רחובות‎‎
قضاء رحوفوت
Rehovot subdistrict נפת רחובות‎‎; قضاء رحوفوت
Subdistrict
	Central District in blue, with Rehovot Subdistrict in dark blue
Country	Israel
District	Central
Area
• Total	324 km2 (125 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• 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.

History

The subdistrict is composed mostly of the western half of what had been, during Mandatory Palestine, the Ramle Subdistrict, before it was ethnically cleansed by Zionist forces during the Nakba.

References

^ "Population, by Population Group, Religion, Age and Sex, District and Sub-District" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2018. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
^ "Subdistricts of Israel". statoids. Retrieved 29 January 2019.

31°54′N 34°49′E / 31.900°N 34.817°E / 31.900; 34.817

[1] "Population, by Population Group, Religion, Age and Sex, District and Sub-District" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2018. Retrieved May 8, 2018.

[2] "Subdistricts of Israel". statoids. Retrieved 29 January 2019.

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