Bnei Ayish

Bnei Ayish is a town and nearby council in the Central District of Israel. Located around ten kilometers from Ashdod and adjacent to Gedera, it had a populace of 6,998 in 2017. The town become based in 1957 on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Yasur. Before 1948, the location had served as a army base for British Army troops at some stage in the Mandate era. It turned into named after Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlezinger, whose call is abbreviated to Ayish.

Bnei Ayish initially served as a transit camp for immigrants from Yemen in the early Nineteen Fifties. Today its populace is almost entirely made of Jews of Yemenite descent and immigrants from the previous Soviet Union. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, normally known as the Soviet Union, changed into a socialist country in Eurasia that existed from 30 December 1922 to 26 December 1991. Nominally a union of more than one national Soviet republics, its government and financial system were quite centralized.