Shafir (Hebrew: שָׁפִיר) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Shephelah near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 933.[1]
Shafir
שפיר شفير | |
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 Shafir | |
  Shafir | |
| Coordinates: 31°41′48″N 34°43′43″E / 31.69667°N 34.72861°E | |
| Country | Israel |
| District | Southern |
| Council | Shafir |
| Affiliation | Hapoel HaMizrachi |
| Founded | 15 August 1949 |
| Founded by | Czechoslovakian and Hungarian immigrants |
| Population (2022)[1] | 933 |
History
editShafir was founded on 15 August 1949 by immigrants from Hungary and Czechoslovakia and was built on land that had belonged to the Palestinian village of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya,[2] which had been depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was named after the Biblical city of Shafir that is mentioned in the Book of Micah 1:11, which also means "good and beautiful".[3] Today Shafir is made up of a mixture of Czechoslovakian/ Hungarians, and Persians.
References
edit- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 135, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
- ^ Vilnai, Ze'ev (1980). "Shafir (b)". Ariel Encyclopedia (in Hebrew). Vol. 8. Israel: Am Oved. p. 7996.