Talmei Yosef

For the former Israeli settlement, see Talmei Yosef, Sinai
Talmei Yosef
תַּלְמֵי יוֹסֵף‬
Talmei Yosef
Coordinates: 31°12′0.35″N 34°21′50.76″E / 31.2000972°N 34.3641000°E / 31.2000972; 34.3641000Coordinates: 31°12′0.35″N 34°21′50.76″E / 31.2000972°N 34.3641000°E / 31.2000972; 34.3641000
District Southern
Council Eshkol
Affiliation Agricultural Union
Founded 1982
Founded by Evacuated settlers
Population (2017)[1] 321

Talmei Yosef (Hebrew: תַּלְמֵי יוֹסֵף‬, lit. Yosef Furrows) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Shalom area of the north-western Negev desert near the Gaza Strip border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2017 it had a population of 321.[1]

History

The moshav was established in 1982 by former residents of Talmei Yosef, an Israeli settlement in Sinai. The original settlement's residents were evacuated as a result of the Camp David Accords, and re-settled in Israel, naming their new settlement after their previous one (after Yosef Weitz, a former director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the Jewish National Fund).[2]

In May 2015, KKL Belgium established a green landscaping project around the local synagogue in memory of Yilona Nejszaten, one of one the "hidden children" of the Holocaust.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval Elʻazari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 571. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
  3. ↑ Belgian and French Solidarity Mission: Dedications in Tel Aviv and the Negev
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