Aviezer
title: "Aviezer" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["iranian-jewish-culture-in-israel", "moshavim", "populated-places-established-in-1958", "religious-israeli-communities", "1958-establishments-in-israel", "populated-places-in-jerusalem-district", "valley-of-elah"] topic_path: "geography/israel" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviezer" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Aviezer |
| hebname | אביעזר |
| arname | افيعيزر |
| image | File:Israeli_Moshav,_Aviezer,_Feb._6,_2015.jpg |
| caption | Aviezer as viewed from the Elah Valley |
| founded | 8 April 1958 |
| founded_by | Cochin Jews |
| council | Mateh Yehuda |
| country | |
| district | jerusalem |
| affiliation | Hapoel HaMizrachi |
| population | |
| popyear | |
| population_footnotes | |
| pushpin_map | Israel jerusalem#Israel |
| coordinates | |
| :: |
| name = Aviezer |hebname=אביעזר |arname=افيعيزر | image = File:Israeli_Moshav,_Aviezer,_Feb._6,_2015.jpg | caption = Aviezer as viewed from the Elah Valley | founded = 8 April 1958 | founded_by = Cochin Jews | council = Mateh Yehuda | country = | district = jerusalem | affiliation = Hapoel HaMizrachi | population = | popyear = | population_footnotes = |pushpin_map=Israel jerusalem#Israel |pushpin_mapsize=250|pushpin_label_position=left |coordinates = | website = Aviezer () 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 it had a population of .
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 belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Bayt Nattif. Today, the site of Aviezer lies within the "green-line" of the 1949 Armistice Agreements.
Gallery
File:Israeli_Moshav,_Aviezer,_in_the_Elah_Valley,_Jan_2015.jpg|Moshav Aviezer, overlooking the Elah Valley File:Moshav_Aviezer,_Jewish_village_in_Elah_Valley.jpg|Moshav Aviezer as seen from ruin, Um Ra'us (southern site) File:House_in_Moshav_Aviezer.jpg|House in Moshav Aviezer File:The_Ruin_of_Um_Ra'us,_near_Moshav_Aviezer.jpg|The Ruin of Um Ra'us (southern site), near Moshav Aviezer File:Cistern_at_the_Ruin_of_Um_Ra'us,_near_Aviezer.jpg|Cistern at the Ruin of Um Ra'us, near Moshav Aviezer File:Um_Ra'us,_January_2015.jpg|Um Ra'us (southern site), dating back to Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times File:Hewn sepulchre in Um er Rus - 6 Jan. 2015.JPG|Mouth of hewn sepulchre at Um er-Rus (southern site), near Moshav Aviezer File:Rock-cut burial chamber.jpg|Burial tomb carved from rock in Khirbet Malkat-ha near Aviezer File:Large millstone used for olives.jpg|Olive press at Khirbet Malkat-ha File:Covered pit - cistern.jpg|Pit with iron grating File:Broken millstone.jpg|Broken olive press near Aviezer (Khirbet Malkat-ha) File:Foundations of old house with niche carved in wall, Kh. Beit Ika.jpg|Foundations of old house, found at Kh. Beit-Ika ruin near Aviezer File:Ancient millstone of olive press at Kh. Beit Ika.jpg|Millstone of Olive Press in Kh. Beit Ika
References
References
- ''Har’el: Palmach brigade in Jerusalem'', by Zvi Dror (ed. Nathan Shoḥam), Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishers: Benei Barak 2005, p. 273
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