Gan Yavne

Barqa (Arabic: برقة) was a Palestinian Arab village located 37 km north of Gaza near the modern-day Israeli city of Ashdod. It was referred to as Barka by the Greeks and Bareca by the Romans during their rule over the ancient Philistine city. In 1945, the village had a population of 890 and total land area of 5,206 dunums. It was occupied and depopulated on May 13, 1948 during Operation Barak, a Yishuv offensive in southern Palestine just prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The ruins of the village were later incorporated into the Israeli town of Gan Yavne.

Hatzor (Hebrew: חָצוֹר), officially Hatzor Ashdod, is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located near Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2021 it had a population of 673.

Gederot Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית גדרות, Mo'atza Azorit Gderot) is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. It is located between Ashdod, Yavne and Gedera and covers an area of 13,000 dunams. Founded in 1953, it was named after a biblical town in the allotment of the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:41) Its population is 4,200. It borders on Brenner Regional Council to the north, Hevel Yavne Regional Council to the west, Be'er Tuvia Regional Council and Gan Yavne to the south, and the city of Gedera to the east.

Ort Itzhak Rabin Gan Yavne (Hebrew: אורט רבין גן יבנה, formerly referred to as Ort Gan Yavne, and as Kiryat Hinuch Rabin) is a pluralistic secular Jewish high school and junior high school in Gan Yavne, Israel. It was founded in 1995 as the first high school in the town of Gan Yavne, after years students from the town studied in the relatively close town of Gedera. It was named after the late Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. The students are mostly from Gan Yavne, but some come from the nearby moshav Bitzaron. The school has high rates of Bagrut graduates and fairly high Israel Defense Forces recruitments stat. It has the following division into classes: Computer Programming (including Cyber security), Biology (with the opportunity of expanding it with one of the following: Jewish thought, Arts, Geography, Theater & Journalism), Biotechnology and Humanities (Psychology). Besides Hebrew language classes, the school also offers Arabic which is studied as a foreign language alongside the mandatory English language (the school is one of the few that teaches 7 units level Bagrut in English). The school's football field was more than doubled in size in construction works that started in November 2005 and were finished in October 2006. The nearby open field north of the basketball & volleyball arena was turned into a 2nd parking lot and was added to the school's property during 2009. The school's Junior High building's classes are used as a voting booths during national and local elections. As of 2010, the school has a robotics team who achieved worldwide prizes in FIRST Robotics Competition. The school's auditorium has also been used in Shabbat as the local small community of Reform Jews' Synagogue. The school's basketball arena was also used by the local basketball team Hapoel Gan Yavne that played in the Liga Bet minor league's southern division. Since 2008, there is a second ORT Israel junior high school (and high school) in Gan Yavne; Although, the second one is named "Ort Naomi Shemer", after the late Israeli poet Naomi Shemer. In 2013 a local Police Department was built in the area next to the Junior High. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the northern parking lot (rebuilt in late 2019) was declared a Coronavirus testing area on October 27, 2020.

Be'er Tuvia Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית באר טוביה, Mo'atza Azorit Be'er Tovia), is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel. It borders Yoav and Nahal Sorek regional councils in the east; Hof Ashkelon regional council, the Mediterranean Sea, the city of Ashdod and Gan Yavne local council in the west; Gederot, Hevel Yavne regional councils and Gedera, Bnei Aish local councils in the north; Shafir regional council in the south. The town of Kiryat Malakhi is enclaved in the middle. Be'er Tuvia was incorporated as a regional council in 1950, with a land-area of approximately 140,000 dunams (140 km²). According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the regional council had a population of 18,600.

Gan HaDarom (Hebrew: גַּן הַדָּרוֹם, lit. Garden of the South) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located on the coastal plain near Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council. In 2021 it had a population of 633.

Shtulim (Hebrew: שְׁתוּלִים, lit. Planted) is a moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2021 it had a population of 2,121.

Bitzaron (Hebrew: בִּצָּרוֹן, lit. Stronghold) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located on local road 3811, between Gan Yavne and Bnei Ayish, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2021 its population was 1,248; its area is around 5,000 dunams (5 km2).

Al-Batani al-Gharbi was a Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 13, 1948, by the Giv'ati Brigade under Operation Barak. It was located 36 km (22 mi) northeast of Gaza.

Hatzor Airbase (Hebrew: בָּסִיס חֵיל-הַאֲוִויר חָצוֹר) (ICAO: LLHS), also titled Kanaf 4 (lit. Wing 4) is an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base, located in central Israel near kibbutz Hatzor after which it is named. However, there have been no fighter jets stationed there since 2021, only patrol aircraft, UAVs and defense missiles.

Azrikam (Hebrew: עַזְרִיקָם) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located near Ashdod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2021 it had a population of 1,530.

Al-Batani al-Sharqi (Arabic: البطاني الشرقي) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located 36.5 kilometers (22.7 mi) northeast of Gaza situated in the flat terrain on the southern coastal plain of Palestine. It had a population of 650 in 1945. Al-Batani al-Sharqi was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.