Even Sapir
| Even Sapir | |
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  Even Sapir | |
| Coordinates: 31°45′46.8″N 35°8′4.55″E / 31.763000°N 35.1345972°ECoordinates: 31°45′46.8″N 35°8′4.55″E / 31.763000°N 35.1345972°E | |
| District | Jerusalem |
| Council | Mateh Yehuda |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Founded by | Kurdish immigrants |
| Population (2015) | 740[1] |
Even Sapir (Hebrew: אֶבֶן סַפִּיר, lit. Sapphire) is a moshav in central Israel. Located on the outskirts of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 740.[1]
History
The moshav was founded in 1950 by Hebrew repatriants returning from Kurdistan. The name was either taken from Even Sapir, a book written in 1864 by Yaakov Halevi Sapir, a Jerusalem rabbi and emissary,[2] which describes his travels to Yemen in the 19th century,[3] or it was named after Pinchas Sapir, Israel's finance minister, who encouraged Jewish businessmen from the Diaspora to invest in Palestine and the nascent state.[4]
To the north of the moshav is the Monastery of St. John in the Wilderness and a cave attributed to John the Baptist.[5]
Even Sapir is one end point of the Jerusalem Trail, a 42-kilometer walking route around and through Jerusalem, which intersects with the Israel National Trail. The point of intersection is just outside Even Sapir at the Ein Hindak spring.[6]
Even Sapir is a home to "Ben Gurion Institute of Science & Technology", Jerusalem Campus, a housing estate designated for 430 local and international students.[7]
References
- 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ HaReuveni, Immanuel (1999). Lexicon of the Land of Israel (in Hebrew). Miskal - Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books. p. 19. ISBN 965-448-413-7.
- ↑ A Journey to Teman
- ↑ Judean mountains Esra Magazine
- ↑ Go with the flow, Jerusalem Post
- ↑ Jerusalem Trail
- ↑ BGIST