Ein HaBesor

Moshav in southern Israel

Place in Southern, Israel

Ein HaBesor עֵין הַבְּשׂוֹר

31°16′56″N 34°27′1″E / 31.28222°N 34.45028°E / 31.28222; 34.45028
Country	Israel
District	Southern
Council	Eshkol
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1982
Founded by	Evacuated settlers
Population (2022)^[1]	1,109

Ein HaBesor (Hebrew: עֵין הַבְּשׂוֹר, lit. 'Spring of the Besor') is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Eshkol area of the north-western Negev desert near the border with the Gaza Strip and around a kilometre from Magen, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 1,109.^[1]

History

Ein Besor was an Egyptian First Dynasty staging post along the "ways of Horus" trade route in the northern Negev. The staging post was contemporary with Tell es-Sakan.^[2]^[3] The modern moshav was established in 1982. Some of the residents were from Sadot, an Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula evacuated after signing of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty.^[4]

On 7 October 2023, Ein HaBesor was attacked by Hamas fighters. The moshav's civil defense team, with only four M16 rifles, repelled the attack.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
^ McGovern, Patrick E. (2003) Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-07080-6 p 101
^ Hornsey, Ian Spencer (2003) A History of Beer and Brewing Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain) ISBN 0-85404-630-5 p 53
^ Yuval Elʻazari, ed. (2005). Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. p. 412. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
^ Surkes, Sue (15 October 2023). "Heart-stopping accounts of bravery emerge from a town that repelled Hamas onslaught". The Times of Israel.