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Merkaz Shapira

Village in southern Israel

Summary

Village in southern Israel

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name	Merkaz Shapira
image	File:Merkaz Shapira1242.JPG
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arname	مركز شفيرا
meaning	Shapira Center
foundation	1948
district	south
council	Shafir
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Merkaz Shapira () (lit: Shapira Center) is a religious village in the Southern District of Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah between Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The village was founded in the beginning of the 1950s as the Shafir Regional Center, a group of regional educational facilities on land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya. In 1958, it was merged with the farm Dganim, which was abandoned due to failure. In October 1957, The name was changed to Merkaz Shapira in honor of Knesset member Haim-Moshe Shapira, who was wounded in a grenade attack, but due to legal problems, it was only changed officially in 1970.

Merkaz Shapira contains the Or Etzion yeshiva which consists of both a high school and post-high school religious learning institutions (on its eastern end) and an elementary and middle school for itself and nearby villages (Azrikam, Ein Tzurim, Masu'ot Yitzhak, Shafir, Shtulim and Zerahia). The offices of the Shafir Regional Council are also located within the village. Merkaz Shapira has five synagogues - Ohel Yitzhak, The Jerusalemite Synagogue, The Moroccan Synagogue, the Ashkenazi Ashmoret Avraham and the Yemenite Ahuzat Shalom.

Notable residents

Haim Drukman

References

(1992). "All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948". [[Institute for Palestine Studies]].
Morris, 2004, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA257 257], [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA306 306]
[https://www.ou.org/life/israel/when_minister_shapiro_was_wounded_in_the_knesset/ When Minister Shapiro Was Wounded in the Knesset]
[http://www.homee.co.il/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%96-%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%90/ Merkaz Shapira] Homee.co.il {{in lang. he

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