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Tzora
Tzora ( he, צָרְעָה) is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located about 20 km from Jerusalem, near the city of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology The kibbutz is named for the biblical village of Tzora, which may have been a Canaanite town. The name was taken from the Biblical Book of Judges (13:25): "And the spirit of the Lord began to move him (Samson) at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol." The kibbutz's name is also similar to, and is related to that of the nearby and depopulated Palestinian village of Sar'a. History Biblical era Tzora is located about 2 km south-west of Tel Tzora, which is where the Palestinian village of Sar'a stood until it was depopulated during the 1948 war. Tel Tzora is the likely location of the biblical village of Zorah. Second Temple era A ritual bath dating back to the Second Temple Period was discovered near Tzora kibbutz during an archa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teperberg Winery
Teperberg 1870 Winery ( he, יקב טפרברג 1870) is a winery near kibbutz Tzora in the foothills of the Judean hills, Israel. Founded in 1870 it is Israel's oldest winery, as well as its fourth largest. History Originally called Efrat, the winery was founded in 1870 by Avraham Teperberg and his son, Zeev Zaid Teperberg. The name was based on the biblical "Efrata shehi Beit Lechem", the road by which the grapes were brought to the winery. It was first established in the Old City of Jerusalem. When Zeev Teperberg died in 1905, his son, Mordechai Shimon, took over the management. The Mandate government ruled that all "industries" had to leave the Old City of Jerusalem, so the winery moved outside the city walls to various locations. In 1950, Mordechai's sons Menachem and Yitzhak established another winery in Nahalat Yitzhak. When Yitzhak died in 1960, Menachem continued to manage the family winery on his own. In 1964, Menachem purchased land in Motza, just outside Jerusalem, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zorah
Zorah ( he, צרעה) or Tzorah (), was a biblical town in the Judaean Foothills. It is identified with the depopulated village of Sar'a. It has been identified with the former village of Sar'a, now often referred to as Tel Tzora. Location Zorah was situated on the crest of a hill overlooking the valley of Sorek. It lies at an elevation of about above sea-level. It is located 23 kilometers west of Jerusalem near Nahal Sorek. History Zorah was mentioned together with Ajalon in the Amarna letters as a city attacked by the Apiru. Zorah has been identified with the biblical Zoreah (), and is the birthplace of Samson. states: :"there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah". Samson's grave is recorded as being near there (), and which the historian Josephus says was in a village called Sarasat. In , Zorah is mentioned in the allotment of the Tribe of Judah, on the border with the Tribe of Dan. It was most likely the Danites who occu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayr Aban
Dayr Aban (also spelled Deir Aban; ar, دير آبان) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict, located on the lower slope of a high ridge that formed the western slope of a mountain, to the east of Beit Shemesh. It was formerly bordered by olive trees to the north, east, and west. The valley, ''Wadi en-Najil'', ran north and south on the west-side of the village. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948, during Operation Ha-Har. It was located 21 km west of Jerusalem. Today there are over 5000 people originally from Dayr Aban living in Jordan. History In pre-Roman and Roman times the settlement was referred to as "Abenezer", and may have been the location of the biblical site Eben-Ezer.().Conder and Kitchener, 1883, p24/ref> Ottoman era In 1596, Dayr Aban appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the ''Nahiya'' of Quds of the '' Liwa'' of Quds. It had a population of 23 Muslim households and 23 Christian household ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson
Samson (; , '' he, Šīmšōn, label= none'', "man of the sun") was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last leaders who "judged" Israel before the institution of the monarchy. He is sometimes considered as an Israelite version of the popular Near Eastern folk hero also embodied by the Sumerian Enkidu and the Greek Heracles. The biblical account states that Samson was a Nazirite, and that he was given immense strength to aid him against his enemies and allow him to perform superhuman feats, including slaying a lion with his bare hands and massacring an entire army of Philistines using only the jawbone of a donkey. However, if Samson's long hair were cut, then his Nazirite vow would be violated and he would lose his strength. Samson is betrayed by his lover Delilah, who, sent by the Philistines officials to entice him, orders a servant to cut his hair while he is sleeping and turns him over to hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
Mateh Yehuda Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית מטה יהודה, ''Mo'atza Azorit Mateh Yehuda'', ar, مجلس إقليمي ماتيه يهودا ) is a regional council in the Jerusalem District of Israel. In 2008 it was home to 36,200 people. The name of the regional council stems from the fact that its territory was part of the land allotted to the Tribe of Judah, according to the Bible. Places and communities The regional council administers moshavim, kibbutzim, Arab villages and other rural settlements in the Jerusalem corridor, north and south of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, from Jerusalem in the southeast to Latrun in the northwest, and down to the area of Beit Shemesh ( Ha'ela Valley) in the south. The settlements vary greatly in their character. There are religious, secular and mixed Jewish communities, two Arab communities, and the only mixed Arab-Jewish village in Israel - Neve Shalom. Many of the Jewish communities in the Mateh Yehuda district we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzova
Tzova ( he, צוֹבָה), also Palmach Tzova ( he, פלמ"ח צובה) or Tzuba is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Judean Hills, on the western outskirts of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of . In the Bible The nearby Tel Tzova was the site of an ancient town in the days of David and perhaps of Saul. The Septuagint aJoshua 15:59gives a list of eleven towns in Judaea, which is missing in the Masoretic text. One of them is given as Σωρης ("Sōrēs") in most manuscripts but as Εωβης ("Eobes") in the Codex Vaticanus. This has led to the suggestion that the original was Σωβης ("Sōbēs"), and that Tsova can thus be dated back to the time of Joshua Bin-Nun, based on this verse in the Septuagint. The kibbutz's name is also similar to, and is related to that of the nearby and depopulated Palestinian village of Suba. History Crusader period In 1170, a Crusader fortress, Belmont, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sar'a
Sar'a ( ar, صرعة), was a Palestinian Arab village located 25 km west of Jerusalem, depopulated in the 1948 war. The site lies on a hill, at an elevation of about above sea-level. History Bronze Age to Roman period Sar'a might have been built on the ancient Canaanites site of Zorah, which became a Danaite town. The Romans called it Sarea. Ottoman period Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with the rest of Palestine, Saris appears in the 1596 tax records as a village in the ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of al-Ramla under the ''liwa''' (district) of Gaza with a population 17 Muslim households, an estimated 94 persons. The villagers paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, olives, goats and beehives a total of 6,000 Akçe. In 1838 Edward Robinson reported that the village belonged to the "Keis" faction, together with Laham Sheiks, of Bayt 'Itab. In 1863 Victor Guérin found it to be a village with some three hundred inhabitants. An Ottoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eshtaol
( he, אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל) is a moshav in central Israel, and a biblical location mentioned in the Books of Joshua and Judges and in the first Book of Chronicles. Located north of , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In , it had a population of . History Antiquity In 2013, archaeological excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority near discovered the oldest structure ever found in the Shfela region of the Judean Hills, dating back to the first permanent human settlement in the area some 10,000 years ago. Excavations at the site continued into 2014, led by A. Yaroshevich on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Biblical era was in the territory allotted to the Tribe of Dan (), and located on the border of the tribe of Judah. Although listed in as being a city in the plain, it is actually partly in the hill country, partly in the plain. According to the biblical narrative, Samson began to be agitated by the Spirit of God ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Harif
Moshe "Moussa" Harif ( he, משה "מוסה" חריף; 2 June 1933 – 16 January 1982) was an Israeli politician and kibbutz activist. Biography Born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1933, to a Jewish family. Harif immigrated to Mandatory Palestine the following year. He attended high school in Jerusalem, and went on to study architecture and urban construction at the Technion. In 1952, he joined kibbutz Tzora. He became a member of the Meuhedet movement, and served as its co-ordinator in the Jerusalem area from 1953 until 1955, and as its secretary from 1958 until 1959. Between 1968 and 1974 he worked in the planning department of Kibbutz HaMeuhad. He later became secretary of Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim and helped establish the United Kibbutz Movement, a merger of the two organisations. In 1981, he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list. However, he died in a traffic collision in January the following year. His seat was taken by Edna Solodar. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yair Tzaban
Yair Tzaban ( he, יאיר צבן, born 23 August 1930) is an Israeli politician, academic and social activist. Biography Tzaban was born in Jerusalem in 1930. During the 1948 Palestine War he fought in the Palmach. He was among the founders of Kibbutz Tzora, near Jerusalem. In the 1950s, after moving to Tel Aviv, he studied in Seminar HaKibutzim (a teacher's college) and worked as a teacher and youth educator in the poor suburbs of Tel Aviv. Tzaban holds a BA degree in Jewish and General Philosophy from Tel Aviv University.https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=165 For 45 years Tzaban has been politically active. He was a member of the political bureau of the original Maki from 1965 to 1973 and its chairman in 1972–1973. In 1977 he was a co-founder of the Left Camp of Israel, a peace list which ran for the Knesset and Histadrut elections. In 1981 he was elected to the Knesset, where he served for 16 years as representative of the Alignment, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beit Shemesh
Beit Shemesh ( he, בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ ) is a city located approximately west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District, with a population of in . History Tel Beit Shemesh The small archaeological tell northeast of the modern city was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh – it was known as Ain Shams – by Edward Robinson. The tel was excavated in numerous phases during the 20th century. Early development town years On 6 December 1950, the Hartuv displaced persons camp " Ma'abarat Har-Tuv" was established on the site of the current-day Moshav Naham. The first inhabitants were Jewish Bulgarian immigrants. They were joined by more Jewish immigrants from Bulgaria, Iran, Iraq, Romania, Morocco and Kurdistan. In 1952 the first permanent houses were built in Beit Shemesh. Prior to 1948 the Ramat Beit Shemesh neighborhood area was the site belonging to the Arab village Bayt Nattif. This village was built on remnants of an ancient Judean town, with vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute For Palestine Studies
The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) is the oldest independent nonprofit public service research institute in the Arab world. It was established and incorporated in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1963 and has since served as a model for other such institutes in the region. It is the only institute in the world solely concerned with analyzing and documenting Palestinian affairs and the Arab–Israeli conflict. It also publishes scholarly journals and has published over 600 books, monographs, and documentary collections in English, Arabic and French—as well as its renowned #Publications, quarterly academic journals: ''Journal of Palestine Studies'', ''Jerusalem Quarterly'', and ''Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filistiniyyah''. IPS's Library in Beirut is the largest in the Arab world specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and Judaica. It is led by a Board of Trustees comprising some forty scholars, businessmen, and public figures representing almost all Arab countries. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
