Beit Nekofa
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Beit Nekofa בֵּית נְקוֹפָה |
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| Coordinates: 31°48′9.95″N 35°7′31.07″E / 31.8027639°N 35.1252972°ECoordinates: 31°48′9.95″N 35°7′31.07″E / 31.8027639°N 35.1252972°E | |
| District | Jerusalem |
| Council | Mateh Yehuda |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | August 1949 |
| Founded by | Immigrants from Yugoslavia |
| Population (2015) | 633 |
Beit Nekofa (Hebrew: בֵּית נְקוֹפָה) is a moshav in the Jerusalem District of Israel. Located in the Jerusalem Corridor, about 10 km west of central Jerusalem, next to Highway 1 and the Hemed Interchange, between Mevaseret Zion and Kiryat Ye'arim, south of Kiryat Anavim, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 633.
Beit Nekofa's name may be based on the name of an ancient town, Nukveta (Hebrew: נוּקְבְתָא) of Benjamin, mentioned in the Talmud, from which the ancestors of Rabbi Judah haNasi are said to have come from. Nukveta is from the Hebrew word נִקְבָּה, Nikba, or tunnel.
According to Zev Vilnay, Beit Nekofa was mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud as the place of residence of a family of Kohanim. The Hebrew root of the name is Nakaf (נ-ק-פ, taken from Joshua 17:6), referring to the collection of olives by means of hitting the tree, as opposed to harvest by hand (the Hebrew root Masak).
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