Aviezer

Aviezer
Aviezer as viewed from the Elah Valley
Aviezer as viewed from the Elah Valley
Aviezer is located in Jerusalem District
Aviezer
Aviezer
Location within Jerusalem District
Aviezer is located in Israel
Aviezer
Aviezer
Location within Israel
Coordinates: 31°40′54″N 35°1′0″E / 31.68167°N 35.01667°E / 31.68167; 35.01667
Country Israel
DistrictJerusalem
CouncilMateh Yehuda
AffiliationHapoel HaMizrachi
Founded8 April 1958
FounderCochin Jews
Population
 (2024)
920

Aviezer (Hebrew: אֲבִיעֶזֶר) 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 2024 it had a population of 920.

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 that had formerly belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Bayt Nattif before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Today, the site of Aviezer lies within the "green-line" of the 1949 Armistice Agreements.

References

  1. 1 2 "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
  2. ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 212. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  3. ↑ Har’el: Palmach brigade in Jerusalem, by Zvi Dror (ed. Nathan Shoḥam), Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishers: Benei Barak 2005, p. 273