Eitan ( he, אֵיתָן, ''lit.'' Enduring) is a national-religious
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 ...
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 in the southern
Shephelah
The Shephelah or Shfela, lit. "lowlands" ( hbo, הַשְּפֵלָה ''hašŠǝfēlā'', also Modern Hebrew: , ''Šǝfēlat Yəhūda'', the "Judaean foothills"), is a transitional region of soft-sloping rolling hills in south-central Israel str ...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Shafir Regional Council
Shafir Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית שפיר, ''Mo'atza Azorit Shafir'') is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel near the city of Kiryat Gat.
The council is bordered on the north by the Be'er Tuvia Regional Cou ...
. In it had a population of .
Etymology
The name is taken from the biblical verse
Numbers
A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label. The original examples are the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Numbers can be represented in language with number words. More universally, individual numbers ca ...
24:21; "...Enduring is your dwelling place ...".
[Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.155, ]
History
The village was established in 1955 by
Jewish immigrants from
Tunisia
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, map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa
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, capital = Tunis
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, ...
.
References
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Moshavim
Religious Israeli communities
Populated places established in 1955
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
Tunisian-Jewish culture in Israel
1955 establishments in Israel