She'ar Yashuv ( he, שְׁאָר יָשׁוּב) is a
moshav in northern
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 in the
Upper Galilee
The Upper Galilee ( he, הגליל העליון, ''HaGalil Ha'Elyon''; ar, الجليل الأعلى, ''Al Jaleel Al A'alaa'') is a geographical-political term in use since the end of the Second Temple period. It originally referred to a mounta ...
in the northeastern
Hula Valley
The Hula Valley ( he, עמק החולה, translit. ''Emek Ha-Ḥula''; also transliterated as Huleh Valley, ar, سهل الحولة) is an agricultural region in northern Israel with abundant fresh water, which used to be Lake Hula, prior to ...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council
Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית מבואות החרמון, ''Mo'atza Azorit Mevo'ot HaHermon'') is a Regional Council in the Northern District of Israel. It encompasses 13 moshavim and community settlements, from t ...
. In it had a population of .
The moshav came to public awareness after the
1997 Israeli helicopter disaster
The 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster ( he, אסון המסוקים: ''Ason HaMasokim'', lit. ''Disaster of the Helicopters'') occurred on February 4, 1997, when two Israeli Air Force transport helicopters ferrying Israeli soldiers into Israel's ...
, when two
IDF helicopters collided in midair above the settlement, killing 73 people on board.
Name
The name "She'ar Yashuv" ( he, שאר ישוב, , the remnant shall return/a few will return) is based on the
eponymous son of the prophet
Isaiah
Isaiah ( or ; he, , ''Yəšaʿyāhū'', "God is Salvation"), also known as Isaias, was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.
Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as "the ...
(see
Isaiah
Isaiah ( or ; he, , ''Yəšaʿyāhū'', "God is Salvation"), also known as Isaias, was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.
Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as "the ...
).
History
She'ar Yashuv was first founded in February 1940 along with
Beit Hillel as part of the
"Ussishkin fortresses" by 30 families from the
HaNoar HaTzioni ("Zionist Youth") and
HaOved HaTzioni
HaOved HaTzioni (, lit. ''The Zionist Worker'') is a settlement movement in Israel.
The movement was established in 1936 by former members of HaNoar HaTzioni, and its first settlement, kibbutz Usha, was founded on 7 November 1937.
In 1948 th ...
("Zionist Workers"). It was originally called Metzadat Ussishkin Gimel, lit. "
Ussishkin Fortress (No.) 3", before being renamed Aleh Reish ("Go Up, Take Possession"). The present name is taken from the
Book of Isaiah ("A remnant will return, (the remnant of Jacob)").
When the battles of the
1948 Arab–Israeli War ended and a ceasefire was declared at the end of 1948, most of the inhabitants abandoned the community because of artillery shells fired by
Syria from
Tel Azaziat, which overlooks the village from the east. In 1949 it was resettled by remnants of the original community. This time, by members of HaNoar HaTzioni from
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
who survived
the Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
and had come to Israel during the war. After the war it also gained some land that had 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
al-Mansura.
File:MOSHAV SHEAR YESHUV IN THE UPPER GALILEE. מראה כללי של מושב שאר ישוב בגליל העליון.D828-003.jpg, She’ar Yeshuv March 1940
File:שאר ישוב - מראה מצודת אוסישקין ג (שאר ישוב)-JNF034359.jpeg, She’ar Yashuv 1942, tower visible in distance
File:שאר ישוב - מראה-JNF034360.jpeg, She’ar Yashuv 1946
The Syrians shot at the settlers for 19 years from Tel Azaziat, and in 1957 killed Yosef Ben-Haim, a member of the moshav. During the second day of 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 states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...
, the Syrians tried to capture She'ar Yashuv. Radio
Damascus and the French daily
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
even announced that the moshav had been captured by the Syrians. However, a few of the defenders who stood steadfastly chased away the Syrians with mortar fire. The Syrians returned to attack the moshav a number of times, but did not succeed to capture it. On 9 June 1967, fighters of the
Golani Brigade captured Tel Azaziat and removed the immediate Syrian danger from the moshav. Israel kept the conquered Golan Heights and the new cease-fire line is much farther east than the one from 1948.
During the 1970s and 1980s,
Katyusha rockets launched by
Lebanese terrorists caused property damage in the moshav.
Places of interest
On the south end of the moshav are remnants of al-Mansura with a flour mill.
The "Forest of the Fallen" is located on the southeast edge of the moshav. In the forest are 73 trees planted in memory of the 73 victims of the
helicopter crash that occurred on 4 February 1997 above She'ar Yashuv and nearby kibbutz
Dafna
Dafna ( he, דַּפְנָה) is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel, 7 km east of Kiryat Shmona. It was founded on 3 May 1939 as a Tower and Stockade settlement, and was the first Tower and Stockade-type settlement in the n ...
.
On the east side of the moshav flows the
Banias
Banias or Banyas ( ar, بانياس الحولة; he, בניאס, label=Modern Hebrew; Judeo-Aramaic, Medieval Hebrew: פמייס, etc.; grc, Πανεάς) is a site in the Golan Heights near a natural spring, once associated with the Greek g ...
stream, one of the main headwaters of the
Jordan River.
References
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Moshavim
1940 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
Populated places established in 1940
Populated places in Northern District (Israel)