Aviezer Explained

Aviezer
Hebname:אביעזר
Arname:افيعيزر
Founded:8 April 1958
Founded By:Cochin Jews
Council:Mateh Yehuda
District:jerusalem
Affiliation:Hapoel HaMizrachi
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Coordinates:31.6817°N 35.0167°W

Aviezer is a small religious moshav in central Israel. Located seven kilometres south of Beit Shemesh, at the east end of the Elah valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was founded on 8 April 1958 by immigrants from Iran and by Cochin Jews from Kochi, being the chief ethnic constituent, and was initially named Adulam 9. It was later renamed after Aviezer Zigmond Gestetner, a former president of the Jewish National Fund in the United Kingdom. It was established on land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Bayt Nattif.Book: Walid Khalidi

. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Walid. Khalidi. Walid Khalidi. 1992. Washington D.C.. Institute for Palestine Studies. 0-88728-224-5. 212. Today, the site of Aviezer lies within the "green-line" of the 1949 Armistice Agreements.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Har’el: Palmach brigade in Jerusalem, by Zvi Dror (ed. Nathan Shoḥam), Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishers: Benei Barak 2005, p. 273