Beit She'arim

Beit She'arim
Beit She'arim
Coordinates: 32°41′46.31″N 35°10′38.28″E / 32.6961972°N 35.1773000°E / 32.6961972; 35.1773000Coordinates: 32°41′46.31″N 35°10′38.28″E / 32.6961972°N 35.1773000°E / 32.6961972; 35.1773000
District Northern
Council Jezreel Valley
Affiliation Moshavim Movement
Founded 1926
Founded by Yugoslav immigrants
Population (2014)[1] 754

Beit She'arim (Hebrew: בֵּית שְׁעָרִים, lit. House of Gates) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near Ramat Yishai, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2014 it had a population of 754.

Moshav Beit She'arim is named after the ancient town of Bet She'arayim, also known as Bet She'arim,[2] the remains of which are in Beit She'arim National Park, five kilometers east of the moshav.[3]

History

During the 1920s Luise Lea Zaloscer and her sister Klara Barmaper organized the purchase of the site on behalf of the Jewish National Fund in Yugoslavia. In 1926 a group of immigrants 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 UNESCO in 2015.[4] 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.

References

  1. ↑ 2014 populations Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
  2. ↑ Sharon, Moshe (2004), Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Vol. III, D-F; page XXXVII
  3. ↑ Modern Bet She'arim Jewish Virtual Library
  4. ↑ "Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of Jewish Renewal". UNESCO. Retrieved 23 July 2015.

See also

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