| Even Sapir | |
| Hebname: | אבן ספיר |
| Arname: | إيفن سابير |
| Founded: | 1950 |
| Founded By: | Kurdish Jews |
| District: | jerusalem |
| Council: | Mateh Yehuda |
| Affiliation: | Moshavim Movement |
| Pushpin Map: | Israel jerusalem |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Coordinates: | 31.7631°N 35.1347°W |
Even Sapir (he|אֶבֶן סַפִּיר, lit. Sapphire) is a moshav in central Israel. Located on the outskirts of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .
Even Sapir was established in 1949 on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of 'Ayn Karim.[1]
The moshav was founded by Hebrew repatriants returning from Kurdistan. The name was either taken from Even Sapir, a book written in 1864 by Yaakov Halevi Sapir, a Jerusalem rabbi and emissary,[2] which describes his travels to Yemen in the 19th century,[3] or it was named after Pinchas Sapir, Israel's finance minister, who encouraged Jewish businessmen from the Diaspora to invest in Palestine and the nascent state.[4]
To the north of the moshav is the Monastery of St. John in the Wilderness and a cave attributed to John the Baptist.[5]
Even Sapir is one end point of the Jerusalem Trail, a 42-kilometer walking route around and through Jerusalem, which intersects with the Israel National Trail. The point of intersection is just outside Even Sapir at the Ein Hindak spring.[6]
Even Sapir is a home to "Ben Gurion Institute of Science & Technology", Jerusalem Campus, a housing estate designated for 430 local and international students.[7]
. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Walid Khalidi. 1992. 273. Washington D.C.. Institute for Palestine Studies. 0-88728-224-5.