Even Sapir Colony

Even Sapir is a moshav in central occupied Palestine, located on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The settlement of Sapir was established in 1949 on land that formerly belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Ein Karem. The moshav was founded by immigrants from Kurdistan. The name "Even Sapir" is either derived from the book Even Sapir, written in 1864 by Yaakov Halevi Sapir, a rabbi and emissary from Jerusalem who described his travels to Yemen in the 19th century, or named after Pinhas Sapir, the finance minister of the occupation who encouraged Jewish diaspora businessmen to invest in Palestine. To the north of the village lies the Monastery of Saint John in the Wilderness and a cave attributed to John the Baptist. Even Sapir is also home to the Ben-Gurion Institute of Science and Technology, a campus in Jerusalem that includes residential facilities for 430 local and international students. In 2022, the settlement’s population was 699 settlers.   Source: Colony website