Beit She'arim (moshav)

Beit She'arim
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Coordinates: 32°41′46″N 35°10′38″E / 32.69611°N 35.17722°E / 32.69611; 35.17722
Country	Israel
District	Northern
Council	Jezreel Valley
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1926
Founded by	Yugoslav Jews
Population  (2022)[1]	815

Beit She'arim (Hebrew: בֵּית שְׁעָרִים, lit. 'House of Gates') is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near Ramat Yishai, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. As of 2022 it had a population of 815.^[1]

Moshav Beit She'arim is named after the ancient town of Bet She'arayim, also known as Bet She'arim,^[2] the remains of which are in Beit She'arim National Park, five kilometers east of the moshav.^[3]

During the 1920s Luise Lea Zaloscer and her sister Klara Barmaper organized the purchase of the site on behalf of the Jewish National Fund in Yugoslavia. In 1926 a group of immigrants from Yugoslavia settled in the place and established a moshav, taking the name from the ancient city of Beit She'arim, the ruins of which are today a national park that was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2015.^[4] Due to economic hardships the majority of the first settlers left in the 1930s, and in 1936 the moshav was re-established by members of HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, immigrants from Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.

• Muki Betser^[5]
• Rina Mor
• Amikam Norkin
• Yeftah Norkin

• Beit She'arim National Park