Beit Nekofa בֵּית נְקוֹפָה بيت نكوفا | |
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| Coordinates:31°48′10″N35°7′31″E / 31.80278°N 35.12528°E /31.80278; 35.12528 | |
| Country |  Israel |
| District | Jerusalem |
| Council | Mateh Yehuda |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | August 1949 |
| Founded by | Yugoslav Jews |
| Population (2022) | 763[1] |
Beit Nekofa (Hebrew:בֵּית נְקוֹפָה) is amoshav in theJerusalem District ofIsrael. Located in theJerusalem Corridor, about 10 km west of centralJerusalem, next toHighway 1 and theHemed Interchange [he], betweenMevaseret Zion andKiryat Ye'arim, south ofKiryat Anavim,[2] it falls under the jurisdiction ofMateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 763.[1]
Beit Nekofa's name may be based on the name of an ancient town, Nukveta (Hebrew:נוּקְבְתָא) ofBenjamin, mentioned in theTalmud, from which the ancestors of RabbiJudah haNasi are said to have come from. Nukveta is from the Hebrew wordנִקְבָּה,Nikba, or tunnel.[3]
According toZev Vilnay, Beit Nekofa was mentioned in theJerusalem Talmud as the place of residence of a family ofKohanim. The Hebrew root of the name isNakaf (נ-ק-פ, taken fromIsaiah 17:6), referring to the collection of olives by means of hitting the tree, as opposed to harvest by hand (the Hebrew rootMasak).[4]
In Arabic,Naqb means (mountain) passage. An Arab village,Bayt Naqquba, existed in the same location until the1948 Arab–Israeli War when the area came under Israeli control and the villagers were expelled. After the end of the war, the residents were not allowed to return to their village, but they were allowed later, in 1962, to establish a new village,Ein Naqquba, on the opposite side of Highway 1.[3][4][5]
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Beit Nekofa was founded in August 1949 by seven families whoimmigrated to Israel fromYugoslavia. The Neveh Ilan-Beit Nekofa area was devastated by fire in the summer of 1996.[6] Two thousand dunams of forest and dozens of buildings inKiryat Anavim and Beit Nekofa were destroyed or damaged in the blaze.[7]
Beit Nekofa runs a bronze foundry that employs many Arabs from the surrounding villages.[8]
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