Aviezer () is a small religious moshav in central

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. Located seven kilometres south of Beit Shemesh, at the east end of the Elah valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of

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. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was founded on 8 April 1958 by

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from

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and by Cochin Jews from

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, being the chief ethnic constituent, and was initially named Adulam 9. It was later renamed after Aviezer Zigmond Gestetner, a former president of the Jewish National Fund in the

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. It was established on land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Bayt Nattif. Today, the site of Aviezer lies within the "green-line" of the 1949 Armistice Agreements.''Har’el: Palmach brigade in Jerusalem'', by Zvi Dror (ed. Nathan Shoḥam), Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishers: Benei Barak 2005, p. 273

Gallery

File:Israeli_Moshav,_Aviezer,_in_the_Elah_Valley,_Jan_2015.jpg, Moshav Aviezer, overlooking the Elah Valley File:Moshav_Aviezer,_Jewish_village_in_Elah_Valley.jpg, Moshav Aviezer as seen from ruin, Um Ra'us (southern site) File:House_in_Moshav_Aviezer.jpg, House in Moshav Aviezer File:The_Ruin_of_Um_Ra'us,_near_Moshav_Aviezer.jpg, The Ruin of Um Ra'us (southern site), near Moshav Aviezer File:Cistern_at_the_Ruin_of_Um_Ra'us,_near_Aviezer.jpg, Cistern at the Ruin of Um Ra'us, near Moshav Aviezer File:Um_Ra'us,_January_2015.jpg, Um Ra'us (southern site), dating back to Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times File:Hewn sepulchre in Um er Rus - 6 Jan. 2015.JPG, Mouth of hewn sepulchre at Um er-Rus (southern site), near Moshav Aviezer File:Rock-cut burial chamber.jpg, Burial tomb carved from rock in ''Khirbet Malkat-ha'' near Aviezer File:Large millstone used for olives.jpg, Olive press at ''Khirbet Malkat-ha'' File:Covered pit - cistern.jpg, Pit with iron grating File:Broken millstone.jpg, Broken olive press near Aviezer (''Khirbet Malkat-ha'') File:Foundations of old house with niche carved in wall, Kh. Beit Ika.jpg, Foundations of old house, found at Kh. Beit-Ika ruin near Aviezer File:Ancient millstone of olive press at Kh. Beit Ika.jpg, Millstone of Olive Press in Kh. Beit Ika

References

{{Mateh Yehuda Regional Council Iranian-Jewish culture in Israel Moshavim Populated places established in 1958 Religious Israeli communities 1958 establishments in Israel Populated places in Jerusalem District Valley of Elah