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Eshtaol is a moshav
Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
  in central Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Located north of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
Mateh Yehuda Regional Council

Mateh Yehuda Regional Council is a Regional council in the Jerusalem District of Israel.The name of the regional council stems from the fact that its territory was part of the land allotted to the Tribe of Judah, according to the Bible....
. In 2006, Eshtaol had a population of 876.

aol was founded on the lands of two abandoned Arab villages, Ishwa'
Ishwa'

Ishwa was a Palestinian village that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The village was located about 20 km west of Jerusalem, on the present location of Eshta'ol....
 and Islin
Islin

Islin Of the site today, Walid Khalidi writes: "Partially destroyed walls and stone terraces can be seen throughout the site. A thick forest, bushes, and grass grow over and around the stone rubble....
  after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
. It was part of a plan to establish settlements in the Jerusalem Corridor
Jerusalem corridor

File:Israel outline jerusalem.pngThe Jerusalem corridor is a segment of Israeli territory between the Shephelah and Jerusalem. Roughly stretching from Latrun in the west to Jerusalem in the east, it is bounded by the West Bank to the north and south....
 in order to create a contiguous bloc between the coastal plain and Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. The first residents were Jewish immigrants
Aliyah

Aliyah refers to Jewish immigration to Greater Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is referred to as Yerida ....
 from Yemen
Yemen

Yemen , officially the Republic of Yemen is an Arab country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen has an estimated population of more than 23 million people and is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the North, the Red Sea to the West, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the South, and Oman to the east....
, who settled there in December 1949.






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Eshtaol is a moshav
Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
  in central Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Located north of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
Mateh Yehuda Regional Council

Mateh Yehuda Regional Council is a Regional council in the Jerusalem District of Israel.The name of the regional council stems from the fact that its territory was part of the land allotted to the Tribe of Judah, according to the Bible....
. In 2006, Eshtaol had a population of 876.

History

Eshtaol was founded on the lands of two abandoned Arab villages, Ishwa'
Ishwa'

Ishwa was a Palestinian village that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The village was located about 20 km west of Jerusalem, on the present location of Eshta'ol....
 and Islin
Islin

Islin Of the site today, Walid Khalidi writes: "Partially destroyed walls and stone terraces can be seen throughout the site. A thick forest, bushes, and grass grow over and around the stone rubble....
  after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
. It was part of a plan to establish settlements in the Jerusalem Corridor
Jerusalem corridor

File:Israel outline jerusalem.pngThe Jerusalem corridor is a segment of Israeli territory between the Shephelah and Jerusalem. Roughly stretching from Latrun in the west to Jerusalem in the east, it is bounded by the West Bank to the north and south....
 in order to create a contiguous bloc between the coastal plain and Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. The first residents were Jewish immigrants
Aliyah

Aliyah refers to Jewish immigration to Greater Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is referred to as Yerida ....
 from Yemen
Yemen

Yemen , officially the Republic of Yemen is an Arab country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen has an estimated population of more than 23 million people and is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the North, the Red Sea to the West, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the South, and Oman to the east....
, who settled there in December 1949. They worked in land reclamation and forestry. The Jewish National Fund
Jewish National Fund

The Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a non-profit corporation owned by the World Zionist Organization...
 established a 45-dunam nursery in Eshtaol to supply saplings for JNF forests. Later, the moshav branched out into poultry and other agricultural enterprises. At the end of the 1990s, the moshav absorbed 100 new families.

Biblical significance

Eshtaol was in the territory allotted to the tribe of Dan (Joshua
Joshua

Joshua, Jehoshuah or Yehoshua , born in Egypt, was a biblical Israelite leader who succeeded Moses. His story is told in the Hebrew Bible, chiefly in the books Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers and Book of Joshua....
 19:41). According to the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
, Samson
Samson

Samson, Shimshon or Shamshoun ????? is the third to last of the Biblical judges of the ancient Children of Israel mentioned in the Tanakh , and the Talmud....
 began to prophesy "between Zorah
Tzora

Tzora is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located about 20 km from Jerusalem, near the city of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council....
 and Eshtaol" (Book of Judges
Book of Judges

The Book of Judges is a Books of the Bible originally written in Hebrew language. It appears in the Tanakh and in the Christian Old Testament. Its title refers to its contents; it contains the history of Biblical judges , who helped rule and guide the ancient Israelites, and of their times....
 13:25). After his death in Gaza, Samson's body was brought back for burial in his father’s tomb between Eshtaol and Zorah (Judg 16:31). Five scouts from Eshtaol and Zorah were sent out to find a land suitable for the tribe of Dan. (Judges 18:1-29).

See also

  • Eshtaol Forest
    Eshtaol Forest

    Eshtaol Forest is a forest in Israel, near Beit Shemesh lying west of Jerusalem. The Forest of the Martyrs lies to the east. The forest is a popular recreation area and is one of the largest forests in Israel....


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