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Ben Shemen
בֶּן שֶׁמֶן | |
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  Ben Shemen | |
| Coordinates: 31°57′14.4″N 34°55′29.64″E / 31.954000°N 34.9249000°E | |
| Country | Israel |
| District | Central |
| Council | Hevel Modi'in |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | 1905 (original) 1952 (re-establishment) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 881 |
Ben Shemen (Hebrew: בֶּן שֶׁמֶן, lit. very fruitful) is a moshav in central Israel. Located around four kilometres east of Lod, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 881.[1]
Etymology
The village's name is taken from Isaiah 5:1:[2]
Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.[3]
and also reflects the JNF's planting of olive trees in this area.[4]
History
The moshav was founded in 1905, and was one of the first villages established on Jewish National Fund land;[4] the first Jewish National Fund forest is also located in Ben Shemen.[4] According to a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Ben Shemen had a population of 90 Jews.[5] Which had increased in the 1931 census to 353 residents, in 30 houses.[6] In 1923 it was split in two, with a group of trial farms eventually becoming a separate moshav, Kerem Ben Shemen.
The Ben Shemen Youth Village was established adjacent to the moshav in 1927 and is today a large agricultural boarding school.[7][4]
During World War II, Ben Shemen was the site of a British search for weapons. Similar searches were a common British response to Jewish opposition to the White Paper of 1939.[8] In 1947 Ben Shemen had a population of 75.[4] The village experienced extensive damage during the early days of the 1948 Arab–Israeli war and had to be reconstructed.[4] Immigrants from Romania joined the moshav in 1952. Some houses were built by Bezalel Academy of Art and Design founder Boris Schatz.
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Ben Shemen 1942 1:20,000
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Ben Shemen 1945 1:250,000
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Depopulated villages in the Ramle Subdistrict
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Ben Shemen 1927
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Ben Shemen 1928
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Ben Shemen 1948. Photograph from Palmach archive
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Ben Shemen. 1948. Used as a base by the Yiftach Brigade
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Ben Shemen 1948. Dining room
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Ben Shemen. Harvest
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Ben Shemen. Processing wool
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Ben Shemen being evacuated in early 1948
Notable residents
See also
References
- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Vilnay, Zev, Rachel and Oren: The Vilnay Guide to Israel. A new Millenium edition, Vol 1: Jerusalem, Beersheba and Southern Israel, Atlit 1999, p. 212, ISBN 965-90269-0-0
- ^ Isaiah Chapter 5 Mechon Mamre
- ^ a b c d e f Jewish National Fund (1949). Jewish Villages in Israel. Jerusalem: Hamadpis Liphshitz Press. p. 16.
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- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 19
- ^ Roth, Chaya H. (September 16, 2008). The fate of Holocaust memories: transmission and family dialogues. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 83.
- ^ Anita, Shapira (1992). Land and Power, The Zionist Resort to Force. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 288.
External links
- Ben Shemen, Cross-Israel Highway: Reproduction of an oil press Israel Antiquities Authority
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