Shafir
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| Coordinates: 31°41′48″N 34°43′43″E / 31.69667°N 34.72861°ECoordinates: 31°41′48″N 34°43′43″E / 31.69667°N 34.72861°E | |
| District | Southern |
| Council | Shafir |
| Affiliation | Hapoel HaMizrachi |
| Founded | 15 August 1949 |
| Founded by | Czechoslovakian and Hungarian immigrants |
| Population (2015) | 842 |
Shafir (Hebrew: שָׁפִיר) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Shephelah near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 842.
Shafir was founded on 15 August 1949 by immigrants from Hungary and Czechoslovakia and was built on land that had belonged to the Arab village of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya, which had been depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was named after the Biblical city of Shafir that is mentioned in the Book of Micah 1:11, which also means "good and beautiful". Today Shafir is made up of a mixture of Czechoslovakian/ Hungarians, and Persians. For the past 20 years the Ayube tribe has been prominent.
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