Zar'it
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Zar'it is an moshav
in northern Israel
. Located in the Upper Galilee
near the Lebanese border
, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council
. In 2006 it had a population of 250.
The moshav was established in 1967 by moshav residents from the Galilee
as part of Operation Sof Sof, designed to strengthen Jewish presence in the Galilee. It was initially named Kfar Rosenfeld (Rosenfeld Village) after American
philanthropist William Rosenfeld. However, the foreign sounding name of the village didn't sit well with its residents, so as a compromise, Yehuda Ziv, the head of community naming suggested an acronym incorporating Rosenfeld's name within a Hebrew word, Zar'it (Zekher Rosenfeld Imanu Yisha'er Tamid, lit. Rosenfeld's memory will be with us always).
The village was the site of Hezbollah's initial attack
in the 2006 Lebanon War, and was subject to several rocket attacks.
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 northern Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. Located in the Upper Galilee
Upper Galilee
The Upper Galilee is a geographical-political term in use since the end of the Second Temple period, originally referring to a mountainous area overlapping the present northern Israel and southern Lebanon, its borders being the Litani river in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Beit...
near the Lebanese border
Blue Line (Lebanon)
The Blue Line is a border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel published by the United Nations on 7 June 2000 for the purposes of determining whether Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council
Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council
The Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council is a regional council in the Upper Galilee, part of the North District of Israel, situated between the towns of Ma'alot-Tarshiha and Shlomi. Its offices are located in Gornot HaGalil....
. In 2006 it had a population of 250.
The moshav was established in 1967 by moshav residents from the Galilee
Galilee
Galilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country. Traditionally divided into Upper Galilee , Lower Galilee , and Western Galilee , extending from Dan to the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, along Mount Lebanon to the...
as part of Operation Sof Sof, designed to strengthen Jewish presence in the Galilee. It was initially named Kfar Rosenfeld (Rosenfeld Village) after American
United States
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philanthropist William Rosenfeld. However, the foreign sounding name of the village didn't sit well with its residents, so as a compromise, Yehuda Ziv, the head of community naming suggested an acronym incorporating Rosenfeld's name within a Hebrew word, Zar'it (Zekher Rosenfeld Imanu Yisha'er Tamid, lit. Rosenfeld's memory will be with us always).
The village was the site of Hezbollah's initial attack
Zar'it-Shtula incident
The 2006 Hezbollah cross-border raid was a cross-border attack committed by Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants on an Israeli military patrol on 12 July 2006 on Israeli territory....
in the 2006 Lebanon War, and was subject to several rocket attacks.