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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Revaha was established in 1953 by Jewish <a href="/facts/Aliyah/jEbdJ56U">immigrants</a> from <a href="/facts/Kurdistan/bRDraJ2f">Kurdistan</a> on lands which had formerly belonged to the depopulated <a href="/facts/Palestinian_people/DBnkAQ5l">Palestinian</a> village of <a href="/facts/Karatiyya/34oKG7qC">Karatiyya</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> It is located close to <a href="/facts/Hatta%2c_Gaza/Jbbx9pBT">Hatta</a>, but not on its village land.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> The name of the moshav is derived both from the symbolic significance of the name itself and from the quote in <a href="/facts/Pirkei_Avot/VCXJhenA">Pirkei Avot</a> 1:5: "Let thy house be wide open".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>The majority of residents are national-religious. </p> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Revaha. <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024. <a href="https://www.cbs.gov.il/en/settlements/Pages/default.aspx?mode=Yeshuv" target="_blank">https://www.cbs.gov.il/en/settlements/Pages/default.aspx?mode=Yeshuv</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 119. ISBN 0-88728-224-5. ISBN 0-88728-224-5. <a href="0-88728-224-5" target="_blank">0-88728-224-5</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 101. ISBN 0-88728-224-5. ISBN 0-88728-224-5. <a href="0-88728-224-5" target="_blank">0-88728-224-5</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Hareouveni, Emanouel (1974). The Settlements of Israel and Their Archaeological sites (in Hebrew). Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad. p. 198 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>