Neve Michael
{{Short description|Moshav in central Israel}}
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|subdivision_name2 = Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
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|established_date = 29 July 1958
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Neve Michael ({{langx|he|נְוֵה מִיכָאֵל||Michael's Haven}})English translation follows the Judeo-Arabic translation of the Hebrew "neve" = מאוא (مأوى), in Jeremiah 50:7, published in Yosef Tobi's Poetry, Judeo-Arabic Literature and the Geniza, Tel-Aviv 2006, p. 59 (Hebrew) also known as Roglit, is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Adullam region and built upon an eminence in the far south-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|Newe Mikha'el}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
The village was established on 29 July 1958 (12 Av 5718 anno mundi) by Kurdish immigrants from Iran on farm land that had belonged 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|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|page=212|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|ISBN=0-88728-224-5}} The place had formerly been known as Khirbet Jurfah.In the Survey of Western Palestine (Arabic and English Name Lists), London 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/307/mode/1up 307], E.H. Palmer calls the site ''Khŭrbet Jurfa." According to Payne-Smith's lexicon of the Aramaic/Syriac language, the name "Jurfa" (ܓܘܪܦܐ), means "a cutting or slip of the olive-tree; a hollow in a tree." See {{cite book |last=Payne Smith |first=J. |author-link=Jessie Payne Margoliouth|title=A compendious Syriac Dictionary: founded upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith |publisher=Clarendon Press |date=1903 |location=Oxford |language=syr, en |url=https://archive.org/details/ACompendiousSyriacDictionary |oclc=251355373 }}, p. [https://archive.org/details/ACompendiousSyriacDictionary/page/n74/mode/1up 66]. Archaeological finds range
from the early Hellenistic period to the Umayyad period with evidence of a Jewish settlement in the first century CE.{{cite journal |last=Avner|first=Rina |title=Rogelit |journal=Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel |publisher=Israel Antiquities Authority|volume=118 |date=2006|url=http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=355&mag_id=111|language=en}}
The newly restructured Jewish National Fund (JNF), working in concert with the Hitahdut HaIkarim agricultural organisation, settled new immigrants on the site in 1958, giving to the place the name Roglit ({{langx|he|רוֹגְלִית}}), meaning "tiller [of the grapevine]". The new immigrants were initially employed as laborers for JNF land reclamation. Afterwards, the village economy was based on agriculture (citrus fruit) and poultry, which phased out in the late 1980s. A newer regional community center built alongside it was given the name Neve Michael, in memory of American philanthropist, Michael M. Weiss, who was a donor to the JNF.[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In_memory_of.jpg Stone Monument in Neve Michael], in memory of Michael M. Weiss; [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stone_monument_in_memorium.jpg In recognition of Michael M. Weiss]
The newer section had a regional elementary school which catered to children from the surrounding communities of Roglit, Aderet and Aviezer, but closed its doors in the early 1980s.{{Citation needed|date=August 2018}} Today, the grounds of the old school serve as a home for the mentally and physically disabled. When the new settlement of Neve Michael failed to attract new residents, the settlement of Neve Michael was merged with Roglit in 1983.Hareuveni, Imanuel (2010). [https://kotar.cet.ac.il/KotarApp/Viewer.aspx?nBookID=93576566#862.9511.6.default Eretz Israel Lexicon] (in Hebrew). Matach. p. 862
A new Israel Border Police outpost was also built in Neve Michael, which was later abandoned in 1962. The founders were joined by immigrants from North Africa, mainly Morocco.[http://www.homee.co.il/%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%95%D7%94-%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%90%D7%9C/ About Neve Michael] Homee {{in lang|he}} In 2005 the village started an expansion plan attracting many younger families to the moshav. The moshav has a mixed population with people of different ages, ethnic background and Jewish religious observance.{{Citation needed|date=November 2017}}
Near the moshav are the ruins of Adullam and Hurvat Itri. To the south-east of the moshav, within walking distance, lies the community settlement of Giv'ot Eden.
Gallery
File:Vineyard at Moshav Neve Michael.jpg|Vineyard at Neve Michael
File:Moshav Neve Michael, 25 December 2014.jpg|View of Valley from the Moshav
File:Village of Neve Michael ("Michael's Haven"), in Israel.jpg|Sunrise over the Elah Valley
File:Houses in Neve Michael, December 2014.jpg|Houses in Neve Michael
File:Pistacia atlantica, Elah Valley, June 2015.jpg|Terebinth tree (Pistacia atlantica) in the Elah valley, on south side of Neve Michael
File:Pistacia atlantica, in sunlight.jpg|Beneath the shady boughs of a terebinth
File:Pistacia atlantica (Elah valley).JPG|Terebinth (Pistacia atlantica) growing in the Elah Valley
File:Neve Michael, path to village.jpg|Wheat fields in the Valley of Elah
File:Almond tree in blossom (Israel).jpg|Almond tree with blossoming flowers
File:Community Center in Neve Michael.jpg|The Community Center in Moshav Neve Michael
File:Valley of Sur, an extension of the Elah Valley.jpg|Neve Michael looking out over Wadi Sur
File:Neve Michael seen from east.jpg|Moshav as seen from eastern mountain
File:Neve Michael (moshav).jpg|Wheat fields in valley
File:Patch of Dominican sage.jpg|Dominican sage (Salvia dominica) and Neve Michael in background
References
{{Commons category|Neve Michael}}
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External links
- [http://www.antiquities.org.il/survey/new/default_en.aspx?pid=13455 Rogelit in Antiquity] Archaeological Survey of Israel
{{Mateh Yehuda Regional Council}}
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Category:Iranian-Jewish culture in Israel
Category:Kurdish-Jewish culture in Israel
Category:Populated places established in 1958
Category:1958 establishments in Israel