Beit Yosef, Israel
{{Short description|Moshav in northern Israel}}
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| founded = 1937
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| country = {{ISR}}
| district = north
| council = Valley of Springs
| affiliation = Moshavim Movement
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| population = {{Israel populations|Bet Yosef}}
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Beit Yosef ({{langx|he|בית יוסף}}) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Beit She'an Valley about eight kilometres north of Beit She'an, adjacent to Yardena, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. As of {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Bet Yosef}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
Beit Yosef was founded in 1937 as a tower and stockade settlement, a series of settlements erected during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.{{cite book | title=Jewish Villages in Israel | author=Jewish National Fund | year=1949 | publisher=Hamadpis Liphshitz Press | location=Jerusalem | pages=24}} It was named for Yosef Aharonovitch, an influential figure in the Labor Party and a journalist. By 1947 it had a population of over 200. Although it was abandoned during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War after it was severely attacked by the Jordanian Arab Legion and Iraqi Army, it was re-established in 1951 by immigrants from Kurdistan and Iraq.
File:בית יוסף - הבונים בחומה --JNF044820.jpeg|Construction of stockade wall, 1 April 1937
File:בית יוסף - מגדל הצופים הביאו אותו מוכן ומיד התחילו עוסקים בהקמתו.-JNF044818.jpeg|Pre-constructed watch tower installed, 1 April 1937
File:בית יוסף - הבקור הראשון של הבדוואים מהכפר הסמוך אצל שכניהם היהודים.-JNF044824.jpeg|Local villagers visit construction site, 1 April 1937
File:מראה בית יוסף באמק בית שאן-JNF034466.jpeg|Beit Yosef 1937
File:Tower and Stockade settlement, aerial view 1938.jpg|Aerial view of Beit Yosef, 1938
File:A FARM YARD AT MOSHAV BEIT YOSSEF. מושב בית יוסף.D403-063.jpg|Farm on Moshav Beit Yosef, 1939
File:AERIAL VIEW OF MOSHAV BEIT YOSSEF. צילום אוויר של מושב בית יוסף בעמק בית שאן.D27-045.jpg|Beit Yosef 1946
References
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{{Valley of Springs Regional Council}}
{{Jewish villages depopulated during the Israeli War of Independence}}
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Category:Populated places established in 1937
Category:Jewish villages in Mandatory Palestine