Dovev

Dovev
דּוֹבֵ"ב‎
Dovev is located in Northeast Israel
Dovev
Dovev
Dovev is located in Israel
Dovev
Dovev
Coordinates: 33°3′8″N 35°24′27″E / 33.05222°N 35.40750°E / 33.05222; 35.40750
CountryIsrael
DistrictNorthern
CouncilMerom HaGalil
AffiliationMoshavim Movement
Founded1963
Founded byMoroccan and Iranian Jews
Population
 (2022)[1]
464
Immigrants coming to Dovev, 1958. Boris Carmi, Meitar collection, National Library of Israel
Immigrants coming to Dovev, 1958. Boris Carmi, Meitar collection, National Library of Israel

Dovev (Hebrew: דּוֹבֵ"ב) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Upper Galilee around 7 km north of Har Meron near Israel's border with Lebanon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. As of 2022 it had a population of 464.[1]

History

The moshav was founded in 1958 by immigrants and refugees to Israel from Morocco and Iran on the land of the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Kafr Bir'im, northwest of the village site.[2] It was named after David Bloch-Blumenfeld (Dovev is an acronym of his initials), one of the leaders of the Labor Movement in the land of Israel, who was a mayor of Tel Aviv. East of the moshav is a nature reserve, the pond of Dovev.[3]

Most residents of Dovev were evacuated due to safety concerns during the 1982 Lebanon War and again in Operation Grapes of Wrath in 1996. In 2006, four Katyusha rockets landed on the outskirts of the moshav, damaging fruit trees.[4]

During the 2023 conflict between Hamas and Israel, northern Israeli border communities, including Dovev, faced targeted attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian factions based in Lebanon, and were evacuated.[5]

On 1 November 2023, an anti-tank missile attack launched by Hezbollah operatives killed a 56-year-old Israeli civilian, an employee of the Israel Electric Corporation, and injured five workers who were repairing electric lines damaged in a prior assault.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5, p.461
  3. ^ El'azari, Yuval, ed. (2005). Mapa's Concise Gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv, Israel: Mapa Publishing. p. 126. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
  4. ^ Izenberg, Dan (July 20, 2006). "Moshav Avivim still stands determined during tensions". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  5. ^ Fabian, Emanuel. "IDF to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along Lebanese border amid attacks". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  6. ^ קראוס, יאיר; מושקוביץ, ישראל (2023-11-13). "הותר לפרסום: עובד חברת החשמל נהרג אתמול מפגיעת נ"ט בגליל העליון". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-12-11.
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