Talmei Yehiel

Talmei Yechiel
Talmei Yechiel
Coordinates: 31°45′13.31″N 34°45′47.16″E / 31.7536972°N 34.7631000°E / 31.7536972; 34.7631000Coordinates: 31°45′13.31″N 34°45′47.16″E / 31.7536972°N 34.7631000°E / 31.7536972; 34.7631000
District Southern
Council Be'er Tuvia
Affiliation Moshavim Movement
Founded 1949
Founded by Bulgarian and
Romanian immigrants
Population (2015)[1] 978
Website talmey-yechiel.org

Talmei Yechiel (Hebrew: תַּלְמֵי יְחִיאֵל, lit. Yechiel Furrows) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Kiryat Malachi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 978.[1]

History

The moshav was founded in 1949 by immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Yasur.[2] It was named after Yechiel Chelnov, a Russian Zionist leader.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  2. Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 139, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
  3. Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval Elʻazari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 571. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
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