Meir Shfeya
Meir Shfeya | |
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Village entrance | |
Coordinates: 32°35′25″N 34°58′14″E / 32.59028°N 34.97056°E | |
Grid position | 147/221 PAL |
Country | Israel |
District | Haifa |
Council | Hof HaCarmel |
Founded | 1891 |
Population (2022)[1] | 365 |
Website | www.shfeyah.org.il |
Meir Shfeya (Hebrew: מֵאִיר שְׁפֵיָה) is a youth village and agricultural boarding school in northern Israel. Located near Zikhron Ya'akov, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 365.[1]
History
The site of Meir Shfeya was once a
Modern Meir Shfeya was established in 1891 as a moshava adjacent to Zikhron Ya'akov. The name is a combination of Meir, named for Amschel Mayer (Meir) Rothschild, the grandfather of Baron Rothschild, and Shefeia.[6][7] In 1904 Israel Belkind, a founder of Bilu, established an educational institute in the village under the name Kiryat Sefer,[6] which took in orphans from the Kishinev pogrom. This made it the first youth village in the country.
In 1917 the
In the
In 1929, the annual convention of Junior Hadassah voted to acquire a farm at Rabia, near Meier Shefaya, where graduates of the school would engage in agriculture. A budget of $7,500 was allotted for this project over a period of three years until the farm became self-supporting.[10]
By the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 330, all Jews.[11]
The village was used as a training base by the Haganah due to its remote location in a mountainous area. In 1957 it was made a partnership between the State and the organisation, and today exists as a youth village.[12]
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Meir Shfeya in 1925
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Meir Shfeya (Shefeya) 1938 1:20,000
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Meir Shfeya (Shefeiya) 1945 1:250,000
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Meir Shfeya youth village. Palmach archive photograph. 1946
Notable residents
- Sara Levi-Tanai, choreographer and songwriter
References
- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- S2CID 236222143.
- ^ Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. p. 152.
- ^ a b Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. p. 43.
- ^ Schumacher, G. (1888). "Population list of the Liwa of Akka". Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 20: 180.
- ^ a b c Orphanage which became a youth village Ynetnews
- ^ Palestine Exploration Fund, map 8.
- ^ Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine. p. 34.
- ^ Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine. p. 96.
- ^ Junior Hadassah creates new Palestine project
- ^ Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine. p. 14.
- ^ A little history Archived 2017-07-25 at the Wayback Machine Meir Shfeya
External links
- Official website Archived 2010-04-20 at the Wayback Machine
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons