Aviezer
{{Infobox Israel village
| name = Aviezer
|hebname=אביעזר
|arname=افيعيزر
| image = File:Israeli_Moshav,_Aviezer,_Feb._6,_2015.jpg
| caption = Aviezer as viewed from the Elah Valley
| founded = 8 April 1958
| founded_by = Cochin Jews
| council = Mateh Yehuda
| country = {{ISR}}
| district = jerusalem
| affiliation = Hapoel HaMizrachi
| population = {{Israel populations|Avi'ezer}}
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}}
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|coordinates = {{coord|31|40|54|N|35|1|0|E|display=inline,title}}
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Aviezer ({{Langx|he|אֲבִיעֶזֶר}}) is a small religious moshav in central Israel. Located seven kilometres south of Beit Shemesh, at the east end of the Elah valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Avi'ezer}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
The moshav was founded on 8 April 1958 by immigrants from Iran and by Cochin Jews from Kochi, being the chief ethnic constituent, and was initially named Adulam 9. It was later renamed after Aviezer Zigmond Gestetner, a former president of the Jewish National Fund in the United Kingdom. It was established on land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Bayt Nattif.{{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ|first1=Walid|last1=Khalidi|authorlink=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|ISBN=0-88728-224-5|page=212}} Today, the site of Aviezer lies within the "green-line" of the 1949 Armistice Agreements.Har’el: Palmach brigade in Jerusalem, by Zvi Dror (ed. Nathan Shoḥam), Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishers: Benei Barak 2005, p. 273
Gallery
File:Israeli_Moshav,_Aviezer,_in_the_Elah_Valley,_Jan_2015.jpg|Moshav Aviezer, overlooking the Elah Valley
File:Moshav_Aviezer,_Jewish_village_in_Elah_Valley.jpg|Moshav Aviezer as seen from ruin, Um Ra'us (southern site)
File:House_in_Moshav_Aviezer.jpg|House in Moshav Aviezer
File:The_Ruin_of_Um_Ra'us,_near_Moshav_Aviezer.jpg|The Ruin of Um Ra'us (southern site), near Moshav Aviezer
File:Cistern_at_the_Ruin_of_Um_Ra'us,_near_Aviezer.jpg|Cistern at the Ruin of Um Ra'us, near Moshav Aviezer
File:Um_Ra'us,_January_2015.jpg|Um Ra'us (southern site), dating back to Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times
File:Hewn sepulchre in Um er Rus - 6 Jan. 2015.JPG|Mouth of hewn sepulchre at Um er-Rus (southern site), near Moshav Aviezer
File:Rock-cut burial chamber.jpg|Burial tomb carved from rock in Khirbet Malkat-ha near Aviezer
File:Large millstone used for olives.jpg|Olive press at Khirbet Malkat-ha
File:Covered pit - cistern.jpg|Pit with iron grating
File:Broken millstone.jpg|Broken olive press near Aviezer (Khirbet Malkat-ha)
File:Foundations of old house with niche carved in wall, Kh. Beit Ika.jpg|Foundations of old house, found at Kh. Beit-Ika ruin near Aviezer
File:Ancient millstone of olive press at Kh. Beit Ika.jpg|Millstone of Olive Press in Kh. Beit Ika
References
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{{Mateh Yehuda Regional Council}}
Category:Iranian-Jewish culture in Israel
Category:Populated places established in 1958
Category:Religious Israeli communities
Category:1958 establishments in Israel