Tel Adashim () 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 northern

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. Located between

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and

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, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council.Tel Adashim
Moshavim of Israel In it had a population of .

History

Arab and Jewish villages

Jewish settlement began in the area in 1913 when

Hashomer Hashomer (, 'The Watchman') was a Jewish defense organization in Palestine founded in April 1909. It was an outgrowth of the Bar-Giora group and was disbanded after the founding of the Haganah in 1920. Hashomer was responsible for guarding Je ...

established Tel Adash, a settlement whose purpose was to protect the oil pipeline from

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. By 1918, only two families remained.About
Tel Adashim In 1921 Zionist activists completed a

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of 22,000

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s at Tell el-Adas from the Sursuk family of

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. At that time, there were 150

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families living there.List of villages sold by Sursocks and their partners to the Zionists since British occupation of Palestine
evidence to the Shaw Commission, 1930 In the

1922 census of Palestine The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...

, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Tal Adas had a population of 118; 98 Muslims, 16 Jews and 4 Christians.

1923 moshav

In 1923, a ''

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in background 1947

Notable residents

Notable past and present residents include

Rafael Eitan Rafael "Raful" Eitan (; 11 January 1929 – 23 November 2004) was an Israeli general, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (Ramatkal) and later a politician, a Knesset member, and government minister. Early life Rafael Eitan was ...

Yigal Cohen Yigal Cohen (; 1928 – 6 December 1988) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1974 and 1988. Biography Born in Tel Adashim during the Mandate era, during his youth Cohen co-ordinated the Youth Commi ...

, A. D. Gordon and

Alexander Zaïd Alexander Zaïd (; ; 1886 – 10 July 1938) was a prominent Russian Zionist. He was most known for co-founding several Jewish defense organizations, including Bar Giora and Hashomer. Biography Alexander Zaïd was born in 1886 in Zima, a town ...

References

External links

Official websiteMoshav Tel Adashim Collection
on the Digital collections of

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library is a central academic library of the University of Haifa, and one of the largest in Israel. It is also one of the most progressive Israeli libraries in terms of service, collection, physical space, and libra ...

, University of Haifa {{Jezreel Valley Regional Council Moshavim Populated places established in 1923 Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1923 establishments in Mandatory Palestine