Mahane Yatir Explained

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Coordinates:31.3478°N 35.0606°W
Mahane Yatir
Foundation:1979
District:south
Hebname:מחנה יתיר

Mahane Yatir (Hebrew: מחנה יתיר||Yatir Camp), also known as Lev Yatir (Hebrew: לב יתיר||Heart of Yatir), is a village in the Yatir Forest in southern Israel. In it had a population of .

History

The village was established in 1979, and was named after a biblical city (Joshua 15:48) here in the allotment of the Tribe of Judah[1] In 2008 a gar'in was formed to establish a new village, Hiran, in the nearby area. The group moved to Mahane Yatir in 2010 in order to acclimatise to local conditions.[2] In 2013 it was added to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics count of localities.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p309
  2. http://www.hiran.co.il/#!history/c8de History
  3. http://www.cbs.gov.il/shnaton65/st_eng02.pdf Statistics abstract of Israel 2014