Ahi'ezer is a religious moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...

 in central Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. Located near Lod

Lod

Lod is a city located on the Sharon Plain southeast of Tel Aviv in the Center District of Israel. At the end of 2010, it had a population of 70,000, roughly 75 percent Jewish and 25 percent Arab.The name is derived from the Biblical city of Lod...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lod Valley Regional Council

Lod Valley Regional Council

Lod Valley Regional Council is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. Founded in 1952, it borders Ben Gurion International Airport and Or Yehuda to the north, Hevel Modi'in Regional Council and Lod to the east, Be'er Ya'akov and Ramla to the south and Beit Dagan and Rishon LeZion to...

. In 2007 it had a population of 1,400.

The village was founded on 27 June 1950 by immigrants

Aliyah

Aliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel . It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology. The opposite action, emigration from Israel, is referred to as yerida . The return to the Holy Land has been a Jewish aspiration since the Babylonian exile...

 from Al Bayda'

Al Bayda' Governorate

Al Bayda , also spelt Al-Baidhah or Beida, is one of the 19 governorates of Yemen. It is located near the centre of the country, around the town of Al Bayda'.Its population, according to the 2004 Yemeni census, was 571,778....

 in Yemen

Yemen

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. It was named for the biblical

Bible

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 figure of Ahiezer

Ahiezer

Ahiezer - brother of help; i.e., "helpful." The chief of the tribe of Dan at the time of the Exodus . The chief of the Benjamite slingers that repaired toDavid at Ziklag ....

, who was the chief of the tribe of Dan

Tribe of Dan

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 which previously lived in the area.

The moshav was established on land which belonged to the Palestinian

Palestinian territories

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 village of Al-Safiriyya

Al-Safiriyya

Al-Safiriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during Operation Hametz in the 1948 War on May 20, 1948. It was located 11 km east of Jaffa. al-Safiriyya was known to the Byzantines and Crusaders as Sapharea or Saphyria.In 1945 it had a population of...

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