Dovev

Dovev
Hebrew	דּוֹבֵ"ב
Founded	1963
Founded by	Moroccan and Iranian immigrants
Council	Merom HaGalil
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Coordinates	33°3′7.91″N 35°24′27.36″E / 33.0521972°N 35.4076°E / 33.0521972; 35.4076Coordinates: 33°3′7.91″N 35°24′27.36″E / 33.0521972°N 35.4076°E / 33.0521972; 35.4076
Dovev

Dovev (Hebrew: דּוֹבֵ"ב‎‎) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Upper Galilee around 7 km north of Har Meron near Israel's border with Lebanon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 443.

The moshav was founded in 1963 by immigrants to Israel from Morocco and Iran. It was named after David Bloch-Blumenfeld (Dovev is an acronym of his initials), one of the leaders of the Labor Movement in the land of Israel, who was a mayor of Tel Aviv. East of the moshav is a nature reserve, the pond of Dovev.^[1]

Dovav is situated on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Kafr Bir'im, northwest of the village site.^[2]

References

1. ^ Mapa's Concise Gazetteer of Israel. Yuval El'azari (ed.). Tel Aviv, Israel: Mapa Publishing. 2005. pp. p. 126. ISBN 9657184347.  (Hebrew)
2. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.461

Bibliography

• Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0887282245 

External links

• Dovev on the Bet-Alon website (Hebrew)