Zar'it

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Zar'it (Hebrew: זרעית‎) is an Israeli cooperative agricultural community (moshav) in the Upper Galilee, near the Lebanese Border, within the boundaries of the Ma'ale Yosef regional council.

Zar'it gained notoriety as the site of Hezbollah's initial attack in what has become the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, and it has since been subject to several rocket attacks.

[edit] Naming

The communal village was founded in 1967, and changed its name to Kefar Rosenfeld to honor American philanthropist William Rosenfeld. The foreign sounding name of the village didn't sit well with its residents, so as a compromise,Yehuda Ziv, the head of community naming suggested an acronym incorporating Rosenfeld's name within a Hebrew word, Zar'it (Rosenfeld's memory will be with us always, זכר רוזנוולד עמנו ישאר תמיד). A secondary meaning is the Zar'it bird, with a black body and a yellow beak whose singing can be heard throughout the village.

It may be the Hebrew version of Mazraa, a nearby village.

The word literally means "seed," and as such fits in with the agricultural genre of nearby community names. Nearby villages have names connected to agriculture like Sthula, Netuaa.

The true rationale for naming has never been decisively agreed upon.