Ben Ami


Ben Ami is an agricultural settlement in the Northern District of Israel. Located next to Nahariya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In its population was.

History

The moshav was founded in 1949 by demobilized soldiers on lands which had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian villages of al-Nahr and Umm al-Faraj.
Ben Ami was one of settlements hit by Katyusha rockets sent by Hezbollah on 14 July 2006 during the 2006 Lebanon War.