Beit Yosef, Israel

Beit Yosef
Aerial view, 1938
Beit Yosef
Coordinates: 32°33′30.95″N 35°33′6.11″E / 32.5585972°N 35.5516972°E / 32.5585972; 35.5516972Coordinates: 32°33′30.95″N 35°33′6.11″E / 32.5585972°N 35.5516972°E / 32.5585972; 35.5516972
District Northern
Council Valley of Springs
Affiliation Moshavim Movement
Founded 1937
Population (2017)[1] 440

Beit Yosef (Hebrew: בֵּית יוֹסֵף‬) is a moshav in the northern Israel's Beit She'an Valley. Located about eight kilometres north of Beit She'an, adjacent to Yardena, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In 2017 it had a population of 440.[1]

History

Farm on Moshav Beit Yosef, 1939

Beit Yosef was founded in 1937 as a tower and stockade settlement, a series of settlements erected during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.[2] It was named for Yosef Aharonovitch, an influential figure in the Labor Party and a journalist.[2] By 1947 it had a population of over 200.[2] Although it was abandoned during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War after it was severely attacked by the Jordanian Arab Legion and Iraqi Army, it was re-establishhed in 1951 by immigrants from Kurdistan and Iraq.

References

  1. 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Jewish National Fund (1949). Jewish Villages in Israel. Jerusalem: Hamadpis Liphshitz Press. p. 24.
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