Avshalom ( he, אַבְשָׁלוֹם) is a
community settlement
A community settlement ( he, יישוב קהילתי, ''Yishuv Kehilati'') is a type of village in Israel and the West Bank. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the village's residents are organized in ...
and regional centre in southern
Israel
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. Located near the
Egypt
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–
Gaza Strip
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border, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Eshkol Regional Council
Eshkol Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית אשכול, ''Mo'atza Ezorit Eshkol'') is a regional council in the north-western Negev, in Israel's Southern District. The regional council's territory lies midway between Ashkelon and Beersh ...
. In it had a population of .
History
Founded in 1990, the settlement was named after
Avshalom Feinberg
Avshalom Feinberg ( he, אבשלום פיינברג, 23 October 1889 – 20 January 1917) was one of the leaders of Nili, a Jewish spy network in Ottoman Palestine helping the British fight the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Feinberg was b ...
, a member of the
Nili
NILI was a Jewish espionage network which assisted the United Kingdom in its fight against the Ottoman Empire in Palestine between 1915 and 1917, during World War I. NILI is an acronym which stands for the Hebrew phrase "Netzah Yisrael Lo Yeshak ...
spy ring who was killed in 1917 on his way to rendezvous with
British forces
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in the northern
Sinai
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* Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God
Sinai may also refer to:
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, not far from the village's location. It was initially a
caravan site for
immigrants from the former Soviet Union who wanted to be absorbed into the
Hevel Shalom
Hevel Shalom (, lit. ''Shalom region'') is an area in the western Negev desert close to Israel's border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai. This area was elected to be substitutive area for evacuees from Yamit.
Villages
Villages in Hevel Shalo ...
settlements. In 1997, as these settlements refused to absorb them, it became a permanent settlement, with most of the residents working in nearby settlements.
Next to
Highway 232, about 3 km west of Avshalom junction, lies the
Ugdat HaPlada Monument, commemorating the casualties of the 84th Armored Division who died during the
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states (primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, S ...
. The monument, designed by the architect
Israel Gudovich, was erected at
Yamit
Yamit ( he, ימית) was an Israeli settlement in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula with a population of about 2,500 people. Yamit was established during Israel's occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six-Day War until th ...
in 1977. After the Israeli withdrawal from the
Sinai
Sinai commonly refers to:
* Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God
Sinai may also refer to:
* Sinai, South Dakota, a place ...
it was rebuilt at its present location using the same design.
See also
*
Avshalom, Sinai
Avshalom ( he, אבשלום) was an Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula.
History
The settlement was founded in 1972.
References
External links
Merkaz AvshalomNegev Information Centre
Community settlements
Populated places established in 1990
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
Russian-Jewish culture in Israel
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