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Shafir Regional Council
Shafir Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית שפיר, ''Mo'atza Azorit Shafir'') is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel near the city of Kiryat Gat. The council is bordered on the north by the Be'er Tuvia Regional Council, on the east by Yoav Regional Council and Kiryat Gat, on the south by Lakhish Regional Council, and on the west by Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, Yoav Regional Council. The council is named for the Biblical city of Shafir. List of settlements Kibbutz * Ein Tzurim Moshavim * Eitan * Komemiyut * Masu'ot Yitzhak * No'am *Revaha *Shalva * Shafir * Uza *Zavdiel *Zrahia Villages *Aluma Aluma ( he, אֲלֻמָּה or , ''lit.'' Sheaf) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the southern coastal plain around three kilometers north-west of Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a po ... * Even Shmuel * Merkaz Shapira {{Coord, 31.683, N, 34.717, E, display=title, source:ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Council (Israel)
Regional councils (plural: he, מוֹעָצוֹת אֵזוֹרִיּוֹת, ''Mo'atzot Ezoriyot''https://milog.co.il/מוֹעָצוֹת_אֵזוֹרִיּוֹת / singular: he, מוֹעָצָה אֵזוֹרִית, ''Mo'atza Ezorit'') are one of the three types of Israel's local government entities, with the other two being cities and local councils. As of 2019, there were 54 regional councils, usually responsible for governing a number of settlements spread across rural areas. Regional councils include representation of anywhere between 3 and 54 communities, usually spread over a relatively large area within geographical vicinity of each other. Each community within a regional council usually does not exceed 2,000 in population and is managed by a local committee. This committee sends representatives to the administering regional council proportionate to their size of membership and according to an index which is fixed before each election. Those settlements without an admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masu'ot Yitzhak
Masu'ot Yitzhak ( he, מְשּׂוּאוֹת יִצְחָק, ''lit.'' Yitzhak's Beacons) is a moshav shitufi in southern Israel. Located near Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. The original kibbutz in Gush Etzion was destroyed and depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and a new settlement was established in 1949 in a different location. In it had a population of . History Kibbutz Masu'ot Yitzhak was founded in 1945 in Gush Etzion, midway between Jerusalem and Hebron. The settlers were young pioneers from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Germany who arrived before World War II. The kibbutz was named for the chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog. File:The four kibbutzes of the Gush Etzion Bloc (Kfar Etzion, Ein Zurim, Massuot Yitzhak, Revadim) overlaid on the 1943 Survey of Palestine map of Beit Fajjar.jpg, The four kibbutzes of the Gush Etzion at the time of the 1948 war ( Kfar Etzion, Ein Zurim, Massuot Yitzhak, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shafir Regional Council
Shafir Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית שפיר, ''Mo'atza Azorit Shafir'') is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel near the city of Kiryat Gat. The council is bordered on the north by the Be'er Tuvia Regional Council, on the east by Yoav Regional Council and Kiryat Gat, on the south by Lakhish Regional Council, and on the west by Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, Yoav Regional Council. The council is named for the Biblical city of Shafir. List of settlements Kibbutz * Ein Tzurim Moshavim * Eitan * Komemiyut * Masu'ot Yitzhak * No'am *Revaha *Shalva * Shafir * Uza *Zavdiel *Zrahia Villages *Aluma Aluma ( he, אֲלֻמָּה or , ''lit.'' Sheaf) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the southern coastal plain around three kilometers north-west of Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a po ... * Even Shmuel * Merkaz Shapira {{Coord, 31.683, N, 34.717, E, display=title, source:ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merkaz Shapira
Merkaz Shapira ( he, מֶרְכַּז שַׁפִּירָא) (lit: Shapira Center) is a religious village in the Southern District of Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah between Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was founded in the beginning of the 1950s as the Shafir Regional Center, a group of regional educational facilities on land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya. In 1958, it was merged with the farm Dganim, which was abandoned due to failure. The name was changed in October 1957 to Merkaz Shapira, after the wounded Knesset member Moshe Shapira, but due to legal problems, it was only changed officially in 1970. Homee.co.il Merkaz Shapira contains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Even Shmuel
Even Shmuel ( he, אֶבֶן שְׁמוּאֵל, ''lit.'' Stone of Samuel) is a religious Zionist village in southern Israel. Located around four kilometres south of Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1956 under the name Uman, and was later renamed in honour of the Jewish Canadian philanthropist Samuel Bronfman. The village was originally founded as an agricultural moshav A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 .... In 2013, the village population expanded eastward, converting agricultural lands into a residential neighborhood of an additional 280 households. References External links Village website {{Shafir Regional Council Villages in Israel Religious Israeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aluma
Aluma ( he, אֲלֻמָּה or , ''lit.'' Sheaf) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the southern coastal plain around three kilometers north-west of Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1965 as a youth village named Hazon Yehezkel by a group called ''Mosadot Hinukh Ezuri'' (lit. ''Institute for Regional Education''), made up of young members of Agudat Yisrael. It was built on the ruins of the depopulated Palestinian village of Hatta. In 1996 the Ministry of Interior granted the village municipal council status and renamed it Aluma. In 2014, the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered a Byzantine-era church with a magnificent mosaic floor. The church was discovered during a salvage dig prior to the construction of a new neighborhood on the moshav. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zrahia
Zrahia ( he, זְרַחְיָה) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1950, on land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya. Most of the founders were immigrants from Iran, though there were also some from the Maghreb, particularly Morocco. It was named after Zrahia, an ancestor of Ezra (Ezra 7:4), who came to the Land of Israel after the Babylonian captivity The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile is the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon, the capital city of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, following their defea .... References {{Authority control Moshavim Religious Israeli communities Populated places established in 1950 Populated places in Southern District (Israel) 1950 esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zavdiel
Zavdiel ( he, זַבְדִּיאֵל, lit. ''Gift of God'') is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located in Hevel Lakhish near Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In 2006, it had a population of 413. History The village was established in 1950 by immigrants from Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and ... on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Hatta. Its name was taken from Nehemiah 11:14,Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p. 482, and is the name of a priest returning from Babel. References {{Shafir Regional Council Moshavim Religious Israeli communities Populated places established in 1950 Popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uza, Israel
Uza ( he, עוזה, eng. Strength) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located in Hevel Lakhish around two kilometres south of Kiryat Gat and covering 1,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1950 by Libyan Jews. Its name was taken from the biblical passage "Summon the might, O God, show the strength, O God, thou who hast wrought for us" (Psalms The Book of Psalms ( or ; he, תְּהִלִּים, , lit. "praises"), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the ("Writings"), the third section of the Tanakh, and a book of the Old Testament. The title is derived ... 68:28)."Place Names in Israel. A Compendium of Place Names in Israel compiled from various sources. Translated from Hebrew, Jerusalem 1962 (Israel Prime Minister’s Office. The Israeli Program for Scientific Translations) p.140 References {{Authority control Moshavim Religious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shafir
Shafir ( he, שָׁפִיר) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Shephelah near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Shafir was founded on 15 August 1949 by immigrants from Hungary and Czechoslovakia and was built on land that had belonged to the Palestinian village of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya, which had been depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was named after the Biblical city of Shafir that is mentioned in the Book of Micah The Book of Micah is the sixth of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. Ostensibly, it records the sayings of Micah, whose name is ''Mikayahu'' ( he, מִיכָיָ֫הוּ), meaning "Who is like Yahweh?", an 8th-century BCE prophet fro ... 1:11, which also means "good and beautiful". Today Shafir is made up of a mixture of Czechoslovakian/ Hungarians, and Persians. References {{Shafir Regional Council Moshavim Populated places established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalva
Shalva ( he, שַׁלְוָה, ''lit.'' Security) is a moshav shitufi in southern Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah near Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council Shafir Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית שפיר, ''Mo'atza Azorit Shafir'') is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel near the city of Kiryat Gat. The council is bordered on the north by the Be'er Tuvia Regional Cou .... In it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1952 by Jewish immigrants and refugees mostly from Libya, although some immigrants from Tunisia also joined it. Its name is taken from the book of Psalms 122:7: "be ... security within your towers."Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.417, (English) References Moshavim Populated places established in 1952 Populated places in Southern District (Israel) 1952 establishmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revaha
Revaha ( he, רְוָחָה, ''lit.'' prosperity) is a religious moshav in south-central Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah near Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Revaha was established in 1953 by Jewish immigrants from Kurdistan on lands which had formerly belonged to the depopulated Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ... village of Karatiyya. It is located close to Hatta, but not on its village land. The majority of residents are national-religious. References {{Shafir Regional Council Kurdish-Jewish culture in Israel Moshavim Religious Israeli communities Populated places established in 1953 Populated places in Southern District (Israel) 1953 establishments i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
