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Ein Hindak
Even Sapir ( he, אֶבֶן סַפִּיר, lit. ''Sapphire'') is a moshav in central Israel. Located on the outskirts of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Even Sapir was established in 1949 on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of 'Ayn Karim. The moshav was founded by Hebrew repatriants returning from Kurdistan. The name was either taken from ''Even Sapir'', a book written in 1864 by Yaakov Halevi Sapir, a Jerusalem rabbi and emissary, which describes his travels to Yemen in the 19th century, or it was named after Pinchas Sapir, Israel's finance minister, who encouraged Jewish businessmen from the Diaspora to invest in Palestine and the nascent state. To the north of the moshav is the Monastery of St. John in the Wilderness and a cave attributed to John the Baptist. Even Sapir is one end point of the Jerusalem Trail, a 42-kilometer walking route around and through J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurdish Jews
, image = File:RABBI MOSHE GABAIL.jpg , caption = Rabbi Moshe Gabai, head of the Jewish community of Zakho, with Israeli President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi in 1951 , pop = 200,000–300,000 , region1 = , pop1 = , ref1 = , languages = Israeli Hebrew, Northeastern Neo-Aramaic dialects (mainly Judeo-Aramaic), Kurdish dialects (mainly Kurmanji), Azeri Turkish (in Iran) , religions = Judaism , related = Other Mizrahi Jews, Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic Jews; also Samaritans The Jews of Kurdistan; he, יהודי כורדיסטן, Yehudei Kurdistan. are the Mizrahi Jewish communities native to the geographic region of Kurdistan, roughly covering parts of northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. Kurdish Jews lived as closed ethnic communities until they were expelled from Arab and Muslim states from the 1940s–1950s onward. The community largely speaks Judeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
