Ahihud () is a

moshav A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...

in the Western Galilee in northern

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, about 9 km east of

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. It was founded in 1950, settled by Jewish refugees from

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. It belongs to the

Moshavim Movement The Moshavim Movement (, ''Tnu'at HaMoshavim'') is one of the main Settlement movement (Israel), settlement movements in Israel, whose members are cooperative villages organized as moshavim and moshav shitufi, moshavim shitufiim. History Founded i ...

and falls within the jurisdiction of the Mateh Asher Regional Council. The name of Ahihud is taken from a Biblical verse: "The leader of the tribe of Asher was Ahihud, son of Shlomi" (

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34:27). After sources of water enabling the establishment of permanent settlements were discovered in the region, kibbutz Yasur was founded. Its area is 1,800

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s, and most of its residents are descendants of Yemenite Jewish refugees.

History

The moshav was established on the land of the depopulated

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village of Al-Birwa. Conder and Kitchener thought that Al-Birwa preserves in its name the more ancient name of ''Beri'' (), mentioned in the

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(''Pesahim'' iv.1 6a, seeing that both it and

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are mentioned together. According to

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, the villages in the immediate vicinity of Kabul were pillaged and burnt during the First Jewish revolt against Rome. A

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was opened in 2017.

Archaeology

In 2008, a large Byzantine-era oil refinery was discovered on the outskirts on the moshav. Among the artifacts recovered during excavations were roof tiles, a marble colonnette, fragments of a marble chancel screen, stem lamps, a carved plate with a figure carrying a child and a bronze lamp chain. These items indicate that a church may have been located nearby and the olive press was situated inside a Byzantine monastery. An archaeological excavation of the site was conducted in 2010 and in 2014 by Rafeh Abu-Rya, on behalf of the

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(IAA).

Excavators and Excavations Permit for Year 2010
Survey Permit # A-5991
Excavators and Excavations Permit for Year 2014
Survey Permit # A-7138

References

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Ahihud
Authority for Development of the Galilee {{Authority control Moshavim Populated places established in 1950 Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1950 establishments in Israel Yemeni-Jewish culture in Israel