Sha'alvim

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Kibbutz in central Israel

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name	Sha'alvim
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image	SHAALBIM002.JPG
founded	13 August 1951
founded_by	Ezra-Nahal Members
district	center
council	Gezer
affiliation	Poalei Agudat Yisrael
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Sha'alvim () is a religious kibbutz in central Israel and one of only two affiliated with Poalei Agudat Yisrael (Hafetz Haim being the other). Located near the city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

Sha'alvim is named after the ancient village of the same name that was located in the area and is mentioned in the Bible, in the Books of Joshua, Judges, and Kings. Later, archaeological evidence appears in the form of a letter written four years after the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt (140 CE) by a Jewish woman named Miriam barat Yaakov, which states that she was from the same settlement, which was then named Sha'alab (סעלב). Subsequently, Samaritans settled in the region and established a synagogue.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the area of Sha'alvim belonged to the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod that encompassed the area of the present-day city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El’ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west. This area was home to thousands of inhabitants in about 20 villages, who had at their disposal tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land.

The kibbutz was founded on 13 August 1951 by a Nahal group from the Ezra movement, on lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Salbit. It was named after a biblical location mentioned in Joshua. Judges, and Kings, probably located here.{{cite book |year= 2001 |orig-year= 1972 |author1-last= Negev |author1-first= Avraham |author2-last= Gibson |author2-first= Shimon |title= Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land |location= New York, London |publisher= The Continuum Publishing Group |isbn= 9780826485717 |page= 458

In 1961, a yeshiva, Yeshivat Sha'alvim, was founded in Sha'alvim, and later became a large regional religious education facility.

References

Eshel, Esther. (2011). "A Document from "Year 4 of the Destruction of the House of Israel"". Dead Sea Discoveries.
Safrai, Zeev. (1977). "Samaritan Synagogues in the Roman-Byzantine Period". Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv.
Marom, Roy. (2022). "Lydda Sub-District: Lydda and its countryside during the Ottoman period". Diospolis - City of God: Journal of the History, Archaeology and Heritage of Lod.
(1992). "All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948". [[Institute for Palestine Studies]].
{{bibleverse. Joshua. 19:42. HE
{{bibleverse. Judges. 1:35. HE
{{bibleverse. 1. Kings. 4:9. HE
HaReuveni, Immanuel. (1999). "Lexicon of the Land of Israel". Miskal - Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books.

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