Kokhav Michael

Kokhav Michael (Hebrew: כּוֹכַב מִיכָאֵל, lit.

Star of Michael) is a moshav in southern Israel.

Located between Kiryat Gat and Ashkelon,[2] it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council.

[1] The moshav was founded in 1950 by immigrants from Iraq on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Kawkaba[3] (from which the moshav takes the first part of its name; the second half is from Michael Sobell, a British philanthropist).

They were joined by immigrants from Argentina in 1962.