Rishpon () is a moshav in the Central District of Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Herzliya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
The moshav was established in 1936. Its original proposed name by the name committee, Rishpona (), is an artificial reconstruction of the supposed ancient name of Arsuf, based on a misreading of an Assyrian inscription.Maciej M. Münnich, The God Resheph in the Ancient Near East (2013), p. 244, citing Shlomo Izre’el, "Arsuf: The Semitic Name of Apollonia" in: Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations Volume I, The Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University No. 16, Tel Aviv (1999), 72f. The misreading *rašpūna for kašpūna in an inscription of Tiglath-Pileser III was recognized in 1951. The current name was chosen by its residents, and has similar elements.
Healing Space is a trauma treatment compound established in Rishpon after the October 7 massacre to treat survivors of the attack on the Nova Music Festival. For mass trauma, mass healing
Notable people Meir Har-Zion (1934–2014), military commando
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External links
Official website