Beit She'arim () is a

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in northern

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. Located in the

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near Ramat Yishai, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. As of it had a population of . Moshav Beit She'arim is named after the ancient town of Bet She'arayim, also known as Bet She'arim,Sharon, Moshe (2004), Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Vol. III, D-F; page XXXVI

/ref> the remains of which are in Beit She'arim National Park, five kilometers east of the moshav.

History

During the 1920s Luise Lea Zaloscer and her sister Klara Barmaper organized the purchase of the site on behalf of the

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. In 1926 a group of

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from Yugoslavia settled in the place and established a moshav, taking the name from the ancient city of Beit She'arim, the ruins of which are today a national park that was declared a World Heritage Site by

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in 2015. Due to economic hardships the majority of the first settlers left in the 1930s, and in 1936 the moshav was re-established by members of HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, immigrants from Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.

Notable residents

* Muki Betser * Rina Mor * Amikam Norkin * Yeftah Norkin

History

Notable residents

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