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.
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)[1] | |
• Total | 586,900 |
| Ethnicity | |
| • Jews and others | 99.8% |
| • Arabs | 0.2% |
History
editThe 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
edit- ^ "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.