Shafir
Sign in to saveShafir () 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 .
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- שפיר
- Country
- Israel
- Located in
- Shafir Regional Council
- Population
- 842
- Elevation
- 59
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Shafir.jpg
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- Commons category
- Shafir
- postal code
- 79515
- inception
- 1949-01-01
- native label
- שפיר
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Shafir () 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 .
==History== 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". Today Shafir is made up of a mixture of Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, and Persians.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shafir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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