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Kfar Etzion (Hebrew: כְּפַר עֶצְיוֹן, lit. Etzion Village) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank , organized as a religious kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank , established in 1927, depopulated in 1948 and re-established in 1967.
Kfar Etzion 1945 1:250,000. Kfar Etzion was a kibbutz founded in 1943, for military and agricultural ends, [6] about 2 km west of the road between Jerusalem and Hebron. By the end of 1947, there were 163 adults and 50 children living there. Much of the town's population was made up of Holocaust survivors. [7]
Graves of the Convoy of 35 in Mount Herzl.. The Convoy of 35 (or the Lamed He, which stands for "thirty five" in Hebrew numerals), was a convoy of Haganah and Palmach fighters sent during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on a mission to reach by foot and resupply the blockaded kibbutzim of Gush Etzion in January 1948, after earlier motorized convoys had been attacked.
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni sent a force of 400 armed and trained fighters to the area, and they were joined by armed locals. [1] The plan was to close the roads to prevent Jewish reinforcements from arriving, to conquer Kfar Etzion, to occupy Beit Zakariah to split up Gush Etzion and control the main road, and finally to conquer the remaining three communities.
On 10 December, the first organized attack occurred when ten members of a convoy between Bethlehem and Kfar Etzion were killed. [115] On 14 January, Abd al-Qadir himself commanded and took part in an attack against Kfar Etzion, in which 1,000 Palestinian Arab combatants were involved. The attack was a failure, and 200 of al-Husayni's men died.
The convoy was on its way to deliver supplies to the residents of the Etzion Bloc, including food, water, gas canisters for cooking, kitchen utensils, and sacks of flour. The journey from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion usually took about 30 minutes, and the convoy was supposed to split at the Gush Etzion Junction. The convoy had no appointed ...
The residents of Kfar Etzion were massacred, and all other inhabitants of Gush Etzion, including the residents of Masu'ot Yitzhak, were captured and imprisoned in Jordan. [ 4 ] After their return from captivity in 1949, the Masu'ot Yitzhak pioneers established a new moshav of the same name near Shafir , a region inhabited by the Philistines in ...
Etzion (Hebrew: עציון, lit. of the tree), also spelled Ezion, can refer to places and topics relating to modern, ancient Israel and the West Bank: Ezion-Geber, a biblical Idumaean and Israelite port on the Red Sea; Kfar Etzion, a kibbutz established in the early 20th century south of Jerusalem; Gush Etzion, an eponymous bloc surrounding ...