Beit She'arim | |
Foundation: | 1926 |
Founded By: | Yugoslav Jews |
District: | north |
Council: | Jezreel Valley |
Affiliation: | Moshavim Movement |
Pushpin Map: | Israel jezreel#Israel |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Coordinates: | 32.6961°N 35.1772°W |
Beit She'arim (Hebrew: בֵּית שְׁעָרִים||House of Gates) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near Ramat Yishai, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. As of it had a population of .
Moshav Beit She'arim is named after the ancient town of Bet She'arayim, also known as Bet She'arim,[1] the remains of which are in Beit She'arim National Park, five kilometers east of the moshav.[2]
During the 1920s Luise Lea Zaloscer and her sister Klara Barmaper organized the purchase of the site on behalf of the Jewish National Fund in Yugoslavia. In 1926 a group of immigrants from Yugoslavia settled in the place and established a moshav, taking the name from the ancient city of Beit She'arim, the ruins of which are today a national park that was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2015.[3] Due to economic hardships the majority of the first settlers left in the 1930s, and in 1936 the moshav was re-established by members of HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, immigrants from Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.