Shafir | |
Hebname: | שפיר |
Arname: | شفير |
Foundation: | 15 August 1949 |
Founded By: | Czechoslovakian and Hungarian immigrants |
District: | south |
Council: | Shafir |
Affiliation: | Hapoel HaMizrachi |
Pushpin Map: | Israel ashkelon |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Coordinates: | 31.6967°N 34.7286°W |
Shafir (Hebrew: שָׁפִיר) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Shephelah near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of .
Shafir was founded on 15 August 1949 by immigrants from Hungary and Czechoslovakia and was built on land that had belonged to the Palestinian village of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya, which had been depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was named after the Biblical city of Shafir that is mentioned in the Book of Micah 1:11, which also means "good and beautiful".[1] Today Shafir is made up of a mixture of Czechoslovakian/ Hungarians, and Persians.