Amatzia ( he, אֲמַצְיָה) is a
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 an ...
in south-central
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
. Located around 8 km southeast of
Lakhish, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Lakhish Regional Council. The population is a mix of religious and secular Israelis, and was in .
History
The moshav was founded in 1955, and is located on the land of the depopulated
Palestinian village of
Al-Dawayima, the scene of the 1948
Al-Dawayima massacre
The al-Dawayima massacre describes the killing of civilians by the Israeli army (IDF) that took place in the Palestinian Arab town of al-Dawayima on October 29, 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The incident occurred after the town was o ...
.
It was named for King
Amaziah of Judah
Amaziah of Judah (pronounced , ; el, Αμασίας; la, Amasias), was the ninth king of Judah and the son and successor of Joash. His mother was Jehoaddan () and his son was Uzziah (). He took the throne at the age of 25, after the assassinat ...
, who, according to the
Book of Kings, was killed in the
Lakhish region.
[Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p. 76, ] In the past the community was a
moshav shitufi but it has undergone a process of
privatization
Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...
and abandoned its collective nature.
In 2006, temporary housing was built in the area of the moshav to absorb evacuees from
Katif who lived in
Gush Katif
Gush Katif ( he, גוש קטיף, , Harvest Bloc) was a bloc of 17 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the Israeli army forcibly removed the 8,600 residents of Gush Katif from their homes after a decision from the Ca ...
until they were evacuated under
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan
The Israeli disengagement from Gaza ( he, תוכנית ההתנתקות, ') was the unilateral dismantling in 2005 of the 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of Israeli settlers and army from inside the Gaza Strip.
Th ...
.
References
External links
Amatziain
Lakhish Regional Council web site .
Map of Amatzia.
Aerial photograph of Amatzia
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Moshavim
Populated places established in 1955
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
1955 establishments in Israel