Ahi'ezer

This article is about the moshav. For the surname, see Akhiezer.
Ahi'ezer
אחיעזר
Ahi'ezer is located in Central Israel
Ahi'ezer
Ahi'ezer
Coordinates: 31°58′48″N 34°52′20″E / 31.98000°N 34.87222°E / 31.98000; 34.87222
CountryIsrael
CouncilSdot Dan
AffiliationMoshavim Movement
Founded27 June 1950
Founded byYemenite Jews
Population
 (2022)[1]
1,991

Ahi'ezer (Hebrew: אֲחִיעֶזֶר) is a national religious moshav in the Central District of Israel. Located near Lod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Dan Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 1,991.[1]

History

During the Ottoman period, the area of Ahi'ezer 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.[2]

The village was founded on the agricultural lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Safiriyya[3] on 27 June 1950 by immigrants from Al Bayda' in Yemen. It was named for the biblical figure Ahiezer,[4][5][6] who was the chief of the tribe of Dan which previously lived in the area (Numbers 1:12; 10:25).

References

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  1. ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ 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. 8: 103–136.
  3. ^ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 253. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  4. ^ Carta (1993). Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land (3rd ed.). Carta. p. 72. ISBN 965-220-186-3.
  5. ^ Place Names in Israel. A Compendium of Place Names in Israel compiled from various sources, p11
  6. ^ Bitan, Channah (1999). חמישים שנות התיישבות : אטלס שמות היישובים והמקומות בישראל [Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut:' Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel] (in Hebrew). Carta. p. 4. ISBN 9789652204233.