Ein Tzurim
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| Coordinates: 31°41′40.92″N 34°43′6.96″E / 31.6947000°N 34.7186000°ECoordinates: 31°41′40.92″N 34°43′6.96″E / 31.6947000°N 34.7186000°E | |
| District | Southern |
| Council | Shafir |
| Affiliation | Religious Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded |
23 October 1946 (in Gush Etzion) 1949 (current location) |
| Founded by | Bnei Akiva members |
| Population (2015) | 746 |
Ein Tzurim (Hebrew: עֵין צוּרִים, lit. Rocks Spring) is a religious kibbutz in southern Israel. Located south of Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council and is a member of the Religious Kibbutz Movement. In 2015 it had a population of 746.
The kibbutz was founded on 23 October 1946 as a new settlement in Gush Etzion (east of the present-day location). Its founders were Palestinian-born members of the fifth gar'in of Bnei Akiva that had formed in Tirat Zvi.
By 1947 the kibbutz had a population of 80. However, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war, it was destroyed by the Jordanian army along with all the other settlements in Gush Etzion. The men who stayed to fight were captured as prisoners of war and taken to the Mafrak Prisoner of War camp.
With the renewal of Jewish settlement in Gush Etzion after the Six-Day War, a new kibbutz called Rosh Tzurim was founded on the original location of Ein Tzurim.
In 1949 the people who left Ein Tzurim founded a new kibbutz in south-central Israel near the existing villages of Zerahia, Shafir and Merkaz Shapira, and they named it "Ein Tzurim" as a symbol of continuity. It was founded on land belonging to the depopulated Arab village of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya.
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