Elifelet
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Elifelet is a moshav
in the Upper Galilee
near Rosh Pina in northern Israel
. It belongs to the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council
. About 110 families live there and work in agriculture.
The moshav is located on the former village grounds of the depopulated Arab village of Al-Zanghariyya
. It was depopulated in 1948. The modern moshav was founded in 1949 by immigrants to Israel from Yemen by the Moshavim Movement but was abandoned after several years and resettled during the 1950s by immigrants from North Africa and Iraq.
The name "Elifelet" is borrowed from several characters in the Hebrew Bible
who were also named Elifelet, for example one of the sons of King David (2 Samuel 5:16 / 1 Chronicles 3:8) and a repatriate after the Babylonian Captivity (Ezra 8:13).
Moshav
Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...
in the Upper Galilee
Upper Galilee
The Upper Galilee is a geographical-political term in use since the end of the Second Temple period, originally referring to a mountainous area overlapping the present northern Israel and southern Lebanon, its borders being the Litani river in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Beit...
near Rosh Pina in northern Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. It belongs to the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council
Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council
Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council is a Regional Council in the North District of Israel. It encompasses 13 Moshavim and Communal settlements, from the northern shore of the Kinneret, to the Lebanese border and Mount Hermon...
. About 110 families live there and work in agriculture.
The moshav is located on the former village grounds of the depopulated Arab village of Al-Zanghariyya
Al-Zanghariyya
Al-Zanghariyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 under Operation Matate. It was located 8.5 km southeast of Safad, near Wadi al-Ghara. The village was later burned and destroyed on...
. It was depopulated in 1948. The modern moshav was founded in 1949 by immigrants to Israel from Yemen by the Moshavim Movement but was abandoned after several years and resettled during the 1950s by immigrants from North Africa and Iraq.
The name "Elifelet" is borrowed from several characters in the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament...
who were also named Elifelet, for example one of the sons of King David (2 Samuel 5:16 / 1 Chronicles 3:8) and a repatriate after the Babylonian Captivity (Ezra 8:13).