Elyashiv

For the rabbi, see Yosef Sholom Eliashiv.
Elyashiv
אֶלְיָשִׁיב‎
Elyashiv
Coordinates: 32°22′48″N 34°54′35″E / 32.38000°N 34.90972°E / 32.38000; 34.90972Coordinates: 32°22′48″N 34°54′35″E / 32.38000°N 34.90972°E / 32.38000; 34.90972
District Central
Council Hefer Valley
Affiliation Hitahdut HaIkarim
Founded 13 November 1933
Founded by Yemenite immigrants
Population (2015)[1] 728

Elyashiv (Hebrew: אֶלְיָשִׁיב‎, lit. God will bring back) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 728.[1]

History

Vicinity of Yemenite moshav Elyashiv in 1941, with location of modern roads added in green.

The moshav was founded on a site once occupied by the Arab village Khirbet esh Sheikh Mohammed ("The ruin of Sheikh Mohammed").[2][3][4] Kh. esh Sheikh Muhammed became settled during the rule of Ibrahim Pasha, either by Egyptians or by hamulas (extended families) from mountain villages.[5] In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine found that it consisted of a few adobe huts among ruins.[6] Ancient glazed pottery has been found there.[3]

Although Yemenite neighborhoods had been established near many agricultural settlements, it was not until 1930 that independent Yemenite settlements were approved.[7] After a prolonged struggle by the Yemenite Workers Federation in Palestine, three moshav ovdim were established: Marmorek in 1930, Tirat Shalom in 1931, and Elyashiv on 13 November 1933.[7][8] Of these, Elyashiv was the largest and the only one that survived as a moshav.[7] The original fifty families were Yemenite Jews who had been in Palestine since the 1920s.[7] They belonged to an organization of Yeminite Jews called "Shabazi", founded in Petach-Tikva in 1931.[9]

The land for the moshav was provided by the Jewish National Fund, which had purchased a very large tract from a Lebanese Maronite in 1929 with the help of a bribe paid to the seller's legal representative.[10] Agricultural instructors were provided by the Jewish Agency .[11] However, unlike with other moshavot in the Hefer Valley, no financial assistance was provided by the moshav movement.[12] The first decades were marked by continual conflict with the Jewish Agency.[13]

The population was 310 in 1945 and 460 in 1952.[8][14]

References

  1. 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Survey of Palestine (1941). QAQŪN (Map). 1:20000. Topocadrastal series.
  3. 1 2 Pringle, 1986, p. 71
  4. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 175
  5. ↑ Karmon, The Sharon. Cited in Karmon, 1960, p. 246
  6. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 135
  7. 1 2 3 4 Sharaby, 1998, p.21
  8. 1 2 State of Israel, Government Year-Book 5713, 1952, p. VI.
  9. ↑ Sharaby, 2001, p. 38.
  10. ↑ Adler, 1988, pp. 200–202.
  11. ↑ Sharaby, 2001, p. 41.
  12. ↑ Sharaby, 1998, p. 34.
  13. ↑ Sharaby, 1998, and Sharaby, 2001, passim.
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Village Statistics 1945, p. 20.

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