Bar Yohai
| Bar Yohai בַּר יוֹחַאי | |
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| Hebrew transcription(s) | |
| • unofficial | Bar Yochai |
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  Bar Yohai | |
| Coordinates: 32°59′52.4″N 35°26′56.18″E / 32.997889°N 35.4489389°ECoordinates: 32°59′52.4″N 35°26′56.18″E / 32.997889°N 35.4489389°E | |
| Council | Merom HaGalil |
| Region | Upper Galilee |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Founded by | Immigrants from the Soviet Union |
| Name meaning | Named after Simeon bar Yochai |
Bar Yohai (Hebrew: בַּר יוֹחַאי) is a religious Jewish communal settlement near Har Meron in northern Israel. It belongs to Merom HaGalil Regional Council.
It was founded in 1977 as a settlement for olim from the former Soviet Union. Those olim were not interested in living such a distance from a city nor in such austere conditions (each side of a duplex was less than 650 square feet). Sochnut officials then offered the failing yishuv to Religious Zionist families and members of nearby moshavim. This move was very successful as Yishuv Bar Yohai grew to over 100 families, including a small group of Canadian olim, of which three were physicians.
The community is situated on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Safsaf, whose villagers fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[1]
The community is named after rabbi Simeon bar Yochai who according to Jewish tradition was buried on Mount Meron nearby.
References
- ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992), p. 491, All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0887282245
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