Bror Hayil
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Bror Hayil בְּרוֹר חַיִל |
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Synagogue of Bror Hayil
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 Bror Hayil
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| Coordinates: 31°33′27.72″N 34°38′49.19″E / 31.5577000°N 34.6469972°ECoordinates: 31°33′27.72″N 34°38′49.19″E / 31.5577000°N 34.6469972°E | |
| District | Southern |
| Council | Sha'ar HaNegev |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 2nd century (classic village) 10 April 1948 (kibbutz) |
| Founded by | Egyptian Jews |
| Population (2015) | 880 |
Bror Hayil (Hebrew: בְּרוֹר חַיִל) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located near Sderot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 880.
The name Bror Hayil means "selection of soldiers." It may be associated with the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Romans in the first half of the 2nd century CE.
A Jewish village called Bror Hayil existed during the Talmudic era, and was the site of yeshiva headed by rabbi Johanan ben Zakai. According to the Talmud, candlelight at night in Bror Hayil was a sign that a male child had been born.
Bror Hayil was the only Jewish village founded between the UN Partition Plan on 29 November 1947 and the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948. Its establishment required a number of stages; on 10 April 1948, a group of Jewish immigrants from Egypt set up a camp in the area on land purchased by the Jewish National Fund, with the procedure resembling the "" settlement operation from the time of the 1936–39 Arab revolt. A few days later, the New York Times reported:
The Jews yesterday [April 19] founded a new settlement called Brur Hayal at the edge of the Negeb desert, in that part of southern Palestine where Egyptian volunteers are reported to be preparing a “second front’’. The colonists are veterans who served with the British Army during World II. They drove a convoy of twenty-four armored trucks to a hilltop situated less than a mile from Arab village of Bureir during the night. When the Arabs awoke they found the Jews setting up prefabricated houses and building a defensive wall and watchtower. The Arabs promptly opened fire, but by noon the houses and the wall were in place.
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