Mazaunin Yahudawa na Zionist na Gedera, dake kilomita 13 kudu da Rehovot, Yahudawan Rasha ne suka kafa shi a shekarar 1884, kuma kamar yadda aka sayi filayen Rehovot, Afula da Hadera daga hannun masu mallakar filaye na Falasdinu, Yehoshua Hankin ya shiga cikin sayen filayen Gedera. Ƙungiyar Yahudawa ta Mulkin Mallaka ta ba Gedera suna mai kama da Ibrananci (Ibrananci: ‘bango’) bayan wani wuri da ake zaton an ambata a cikin Tsohon Alkawari na Ibrananci. Sunan Hadera kuwa, a gefe guda, a fili ya samo asali ne daga al-Khadra, da al-Khdeira a yaren Falasdinawan yankin, wato Larabci na ma'ana ‘kore’. Duk da cewa wannan muhimmin mazaunin Zionist (a yau babban birni ne na Isra'ila)

The Zionist colony of Gedera, located 13 kilometres south of Rehovot, was founded by Russian settlers in 1884, and like the colonies of Rehovot, Afula and Hadera, the purchase of its lands from Palestinian landlords involved Yehoshua Hankin. The Jewish Colonial Association gave Gedera a Hebrew-sounding name (Hebrew: ‘wall’) after a site supposedly mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The name Hadera, on the other hand, clearly originated from al-Khadra, and al-Khdeira in local Palestinian dialect, Arabic for ‘green’. Although this key Zionist colony (today a major Israeli city)

An aka sanya masa suna irin na Ibrananci, wannan suna na Sahyuniyya ba shi da wata ma'ana a harshen Ibrananci (Bar On 1996: 38). Filayen mulkin mallaka na Gedera an saye su ne da taimakon jakadan Faransa a Jaffa, Poliovierre.

was given a Hebrew-sounding name, this Zionist name makes absolutely no sense in Hebrew (Bar On 1996: 38). The lands of the colony of Gedera had been purchased with the help of the French consul in Jaffa, Poliovierre.

Mutanen Qatra na asali sun kasance suna noman ƙasar a matsayin manoman haya lokacin da baƙin Yahudawan mazauna suka iso, kuma sun ji haushin shigar da suka yi cikin abin da har yanzu suke ɗauka a matsayin ƙasarsu. Qatra wata tsohuwar cibiyar ikon siyasa da tattalin arziki ce ta Falasɗinawa, wadda tare da wasu birane talatin a yankunan da ke iyaka da Tekun Bahar Rum ta shiga lokacin koma baya a ƙarshen zamanin Tagulla (Zevit 2003: 94), amma ta bunƙasa a tsawon zamanin Musulunci. Binciken tono kayan tarihi a Tel Qatra ya gano wani bita na tukwane don kera tuluwan Gaza.

Local Palestinians of Qatra had been cultivating the land as tenant farmers when the Jewish settlers arrived, and they resented the intrusion onto what they still thought of as their land. Qatra was an ancient Palestinian centre of political and economic authority that along with thirty other urban sites in regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea had entered a period of decline in the late Bronze Age (Zevit 2003: 94) but flourished throughout the Islamic period. Archaeological excavations at Tel Qatra discovered a pottery workshop for the manufacture of Gaza jars.

Ta fuskar etimoloji, sunan Gedera da majagaba Yahudawan Sihiyoniya suka ba shi ya bi sahun labarin ƙasa na Littafi Mai Tsarki na Kiristoci da binciken kayan tarihi na Littafi Mai Tsarki a ƙarni na 19, waɗanda suka dogara da labarun Littafi Mai Tsarki. Wurin "Littafi Mai Tsarki" an fara ba da shawararsa ne ga Victor Guérin (1868‒1880, 1881–1883), wani masanin kayan tarihin Littafi Mai Tsarki kuma masanin labarin ƙasa na Littafi Mai Tsarki ɗan Faransa, wanda ya ziyarci Falasɗinu sau da yawa, kuma ayyukansa sun sha ambaton nassosi daga Tsohon Alkawari da kuma majiyoyin Yahudawa kamar Mishna da Talmud, da kuma ayyukan masu binciken Littafi Mai Tsarki na zamaninsa kamar Edward Robinson, wanda – kamar Crusaders na zamanin da da mahajjata a cikin La Topographie légendaire des évangiles en terre sainte: étude de mémoire collective (1941) na Maurice Halbwachs – ta amfani da labaran Littafi Mai Tsarki, ya yanke hukunci, galibi bisa hasashe, cewa a cikin sunayen wurare fiye da ɗari a Littafi Mai Tsarki a Falasɗinu, waɗannan su ne asalin sunayen Larabci da fallahin Falasɗinawa ke amfani da su (Robinson et al. 1860; Davis 2004: Macalister 1925). Guérin ya danganta sunan Gedera da ƙauyen Falasɗinawa na Qatra (Fischer et al. 2008), wanda sojojin Yahudawa suka kwashe mazaunansa suka lalata a 1948. A lokacin Mandate na Birtaniya a Falasɗinu, Falasɗinawan yankin suna kiranta Qatrat Islam don bambance ta da mazaunar Yahudawa ta Qatrat Yahud (Qatra ta Yahudawa) ko Gedera, kamar yadda majagaba Sihiyoniyan kansu suke kiranta. A shekarun 1950, an kafa unguwa mai suna Oriel (hasken Allah) a kan filayen Qatra ta Larabawa domin sababbin baƙin Yahudawa masu nakasar gani.

Etymologically the naming of Gedera by early Zionist settlers closely followed Christian scriptural geography and biblical archaeology of the 19th century which worked from the narratives of the Bible. The ‘biblical location’ was first suggested by Victor Guérin (1868‒1880, 1881–1883), a French biblical archaeologist and scriptural geographer who visited Palestine several times and whose works often referred to passages from the Hebrew Bible and Jewish sources such as the Mishna and Talmud as well as works by contemporary scriptural explorers such as Edward Robinson, who – like the medieval Crusaders and pilgrims in Maurice Halbwachs’ La Topographie légendaire des évangiles en terre sainte: étude de mémoire collective (1941) – using the biblical narratives, decided, largely through speculation, that in more than a hundred biblical place names in Palestine, these were the origins of Arabic names used by the Palestinian fallahin (Robinson et al. 1860; Davis 2004: Macalister 1925). Guérin linked the name Gedera to the Palestinian village of Qatra (Fischer et al. 2008) which was depopulated and destroyed by Jewish forces in 1948. During the British Mandate of Palestine it was referred to by local Palestinians as Qatrat Islam to distinguish it from the Jewish colony of Qatrat Yahud (Jewish Qatra) or Gedera, as it was called by the Zionist settlers themselves. In the 1950s, a neighbourhood called Oriel (light of God) was established on the lands of Arab Qatra for new Jewish immigrants with visual impairments.

Ginshiƙin gina ƙwaƙwalwar gama-gari ta Sahyoniyanci – sannan kuma ainihin asalin Isra'ila – wadda ta dogara da 'ƙwaƙwalwar Littafi Mai Tsarki' shi ne aikin sunayen wurare na tunawa da Yishuv, wanda aka kafa a shekarun 1920 don 'mayar da' Ibrananci na Littafi Mai Tsarki ko ƙirƙirar sabbin sunaye masu kama da na Littafi Mai Tsarki (Ra'ad 2010: 189). Dukkan Kwamitin Sunaye na JNF da Kwamitin Sunaye na Gwamnatin Isra'ila na shekarun 1950 an fi jagorantarsu ta hanyar ilimin ƙasa na Littafi Mai Tsarki na Victor Guérin (1868‒1880, 1881–1883) da kuma littafin Edward Robinson mai suna Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea (1841), inda ya yi jayayya cewa sunayen ƙauyuka da wuraren Falasɗinawa, waɗanda ake gani kamar na Larabci ne, sun kasance fassarorin Larabci na zamani na tsoffin sunayen Ibrananci.

Central to the construction of Zionist collective memory – and subsequently Israeli identity – based on ‘biblical memory’ was the Yishuv’s memorialising toponymy project which was established in the 1920s to ‘restore’ biblical Hebrew or to create new biblical-sounding names (Ra’ad 2010: 189). Both the JNF Naming Committee and the Israeli Governmental Names Committee of the 1950s were generally guided by the biblical geography of Victor Guérin (1868‒1880, 1881–1883) and Edward Robinson’s Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea (1841), in which he had argued that the place names of Palestinian villages and sites, seemingly Arab, were modern Arabic renderings of old Hebraic names.

Wani muhimmin ɓangare na asalin "Sabon Ibrananci" shi ne sunayen wurare na Ibrananci na Sahyoniyya da taswirorin Isra'ila waɗanda a hankali suka maye gurbin sunayen Larabci na Falasɗinawa (Cohen da Kliot 1981, 1992; Kliot 1989; Azaryahu da Golan 2001; Azaryahu da Kook 2002).

An important part of the ‘New Hebrew’ identity was the Zionist Hebrew toponymy and the Israeli maps which gradually replaced the Palestinian Arabic names (Cohen and Kliot 1981, 1992; Kliot 1989; Azaryahu and Golan 2001; Azaryahu and Kook 2002).