Shafir

Shafir (Hebrew: שָׁפִיר) is a moshav in southern Israel.

Located in the Shephelah near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council.

[1] Shafir was founded on 15 August 1949 by immigrants from Hungary and Czechoslovakia and was built on land that had belonged to the Palestinian village of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya,[2] which had been depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

It was named after the Biblical city of Shafir that is mentioned in the Book of Micah 1:11, which also means "good and beautiful".

[3] Today Shafir is made up of a mixture of Czechoslovakian/ Hungarians, and Persians.