Even Sapir
אבן ספיר إيفن سابير | |
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Coordinates: 31°45′47″N 35°8′5″E / 31.76306°N 35.13472°E | |
Country | Israel |
District | Jerusalem |
Council | Mateh Yehuda |
Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
Founded | 1950 |
Founded by | Kurdish Jews |
Population (2022) | 699 [1] |
Even Sapir ( Hebrew: 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 2022 it had a population of 699. [1]
Even Sapir was established in 1949 on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of 'Ayn Karim. [2]
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, [3] which describes his travels to Yemen in the 19th century, [4] 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. [5]
To the north of the moshav is the Monastery of St. John in the Wilderness and a cave attributed to John the Baptist. [6]
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. [7]
Even Sapir is a home to "Ben Gurion Institute of Science & Technology", Jerusalem Campus, a housing estate designated for 430 local and international students. [8]
Even Sapir
אבן ספיר إيفن سابير | |
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Coordinates: 31°45′47″N 35°8′5″E / 31.76306°N 35.13472°E | |
Country | Israel |
District | Jerusalem |
Council | Mateh Yehuda |
Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
Founded | 1950 |
Founded by | Kurdish Jews |
Population (2022) | 699 [1] |
Even Sapir ( Hebrew: 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 2022 it had a population of 699. [1]
Even Sapir was established in 1949 on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of 'Ayn Karim. [2]
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, [3] which describes his travels to Yemen in the 19th century, [4] 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. [5]
To the north of the moshav is the Monastery of St. John in the Wilderness and a cave attributed to John the Baptist. [6]
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. [7]
Even Sapir is a home to "Ben Gurion Institute of Science & Technology", Jerusalem Campus, a housing estate designated for 430 local and international students. [8]