Nesher Colony
November 5, 2025
Ein Carmel Colony
November 5, 2025Nir Etzion is a religious moshav located between the settlement of Ein Hod and the village of ‘Ayn Hawd, near Atlit in the Haifa Subdistrict. As of 2022, the number of settlers in the moshav was 1,010.
The moshav was established in 1950 as a kibbutz by refugees from Kfar Etzion and Be’erot Yitzhak (which were taken by the Jordanian and Egyptian armies during the 1948 Arab-“Israeli” war), along with Holocaust survivors and members of the Ahudat HaTzofeh veHaNoar HaTzioni (United Scouts and Zionist Youth). It was founded on land that had recently belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of ‘Ayn Hawd.
Sources:
Due to the limited availability of Arabic-language sources, we relied on Israeli sources, including the Hebrew website of the settlement and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics.
Information on the village of ‘Ayn Hawd was taken from the Palestine Remembered website.