Beit Arif
Beit Arif (Hebrew: בֵּית עָרִיף, lit. House of Cloud) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Shoham, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2019 it had a population of 1,174.[1]
Beit Arif בֵּית עָרִיף | |
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  Beit Arif  Beit Arif | |
| Coordinates: 31°59′40.92″N 34°55′59.88″E | |
| Country |  |
| District | Central |
| Council | Hevel Modi'in |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Founded by | Bulgarian-Jewish immigrants |
| Population (2019)[1] | 1,174 |
| Name meaning | House of Cloud |
History
The moshav was founded in 1949 by immigrants from Bulgaria on the ruins of the depopulated Palestinian village of Dayr Tarif (the Romans referred to Dayr Tarif as Bethariph).[2][3] It was originally named Ahlama (Hebrew: אחלמה) (Exodus 28:19), after one of the twelve stones in the Hoshen, the sacred breastplate worn by a Jewish high priest. Four other nearby settlements, Bareket, Shoham, Leshem and Nofekh, are also named after such stones.
In the early 1950s some Jewish refugees from Yemen and Aden arrived in the area, and built homes about half a kilometre away. After disagreements between the two groups, the original residents left and moved to Ginaton (a moshav also founded by Bulgarian-Jewish immigrants) in 1953.[4]
References
- "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 379. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p. 108, ISBN 965-220-186-3 (English)
- Place Names in Israel. A Compendium of Place Names in Israel compiled from various sources, Israel Prime Minister’s Office. The Israeli Program for Scientific Translations 1962, pp27–28