Shoresh
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{{Infobox Kibbutz
| name = Shoresh
| image = File:ShoreshSept202022 01.jpg
| hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|שֹׁרֶשׁ, שורש}}
| country = {{ISR}}
| foundation = 1948
| founded_by = Eastern European Jewish immigrants
| district = jerusalem
| council = Mateh Yehuda
| affiliation = HaOved HaTzioni
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population = {{Israel populations|Shoresh}}
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|coordinates = {{coord|31|47|48|N|35|3|55|E|display=inline,title}}
| area_dunam = 7500
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Shoresh ({{langx|he|שורש, שֹׁרֶשׁ}}, {{lit}} Root / source) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located five kilometres from Sha'ar HaGai in the Jerusalem corridor, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Shoresh}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
On 15 April 1948, the Harel Brigade captured the Arab village of Saris overlooking the highway to Jerusalem. The strategic hilltop position had been used to fire on Jewish vehicles travelling on the road below.[http://info.palmach.org.il/show_item.asp?levelId=42858&itemId=8894&itemType=0 The capture of Saris] Palmach Information Centre{{citation needed|date=March 2019}} Later that year, a group of immigrants from Eastern Europe founded a kibbutz on the site, they called him 'Shoresh' after the biblical village of Soris, which was, according to the Septuagint translation of the Book of Joshua, located in the territory of the Tribe of Judah. The biblical name was preserved in the name of the nearby Arab village, Saris.{{Cite book |last=Hareuveni |first=Imanuel |url=https://kotar.cet.ac.il/KotarApp/Viewer.aspx?nBookID=93576566 |title=Eretz Israel Lexicon |publisher=Matach |year=2010 |location=Israel |pages=930 |language=he}} Four years later, it became a moshav. Today Shoresh operates a hotel, conference center and banquet hall.
In July 1995, a fire destroyed the moshav's poultry and orchard industries, damaged the hotel, and left over half the moshav members homeless.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121102141339/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-5992184.html Moshav Shoresh: After the Fire] The Jerusalem Post, 24 July 1995
Notable residents
- Anastasia Gloushkov, Olympic synchronized swimmer
- Matan Vilnai
- Eli Avidar
References
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Category:Populated places established in 1948