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| Coordinates:32°41′46″N35°10′38″E / 32.69611°N 35.17722°E /32.69611; 35.17722 | |
| Country |  Israel |
| District | Northern |
| Council | Jezreel Valley |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | 1926 |
| Founded by | YugoslavJews |
| Population (2022)[1] | 815 |
Beit She'arim (Hebrew:בֵּית שְׁעָרִים,lit. 'House of Gates') is amoshav in northernIsrael. Located in theGalilee nearRamat Yishai, it falls under the jurisdiction ofJezreel Valley Regional Council. As of 2022 it had a population of 815.[1]
Moshav Beit She'arim is named after the ancient town ofBet She'arayim, also known as Bet She'arim,[2] the remains of which are inBeit She'arim National Park, five kilometers east of the moshav.[3]
During the 1920s Luise Lea Zaloscer and her sister Klara Barmaper organized the purchase of the site on behalf of theJewish National Fund inYugoslavia. In 1926 a group ofimmigrants from Yugoslavia settled in the place and established a moshav, taking the name from theancient city of Beit She'arim, the ruins of which are today a national park that was declared a World Heritage Site byUNESCO in 2015.[4] Due to economic hardships the majority of the first settlers left in the 1930s, and in 1936 the moshav was re-established by members ofHaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, immigrants from Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.
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