, with the modern layout of Shlomi overlaid in blue. Shlomi was founded as a
Ma'abara in 1950 by Jewish immigrants from
Tunisia and
Morocco on the ruins of a
Palestinian village of
al-Bassa, which had been destroyed during what the
1948 Arab–Israeli War, and which
Adolf Neubauer "proposed to identify... with the Batzet of the Talmud". The Palestinian Arab village was stormed by
Haganah troops in May 1948 and almost completely razed. Its residents were either
internally displaced or expelled to neighboring countries. Shlomi was the target of
Hezbollah Katyusha rocket attacks on 11 May 2005, Israel's
Independence Day, and again on Israel's
Independence Day in 2006. It was again the target of rocket attacks on 12 July 2006, a diversion to facilitate the killing of three soldiers and kidnapping two others, which sparked the
2006 Lebanon War. On 6 April 2023, several rockets hit the town and caused damage to a street and a commercial center.
Gaza war During the
2023-24 war between Hamas and Israel, northern Israeli border communities, including Shlomi, faced targeted attacks by
Hezbollah and
Palestinian factions based in
Lebanon, and were evacuated. ==Demographics==