Shoresh colony

Shoresh Colony is a cooperative moshav located in central occupied Palestine. On April 15, 1948, the Harel Brigade captured the Palestinian Arab village of Saris, which overlooked the main highway to Jerusalem. The village’s strategic hilltop location had been used to fire upon Zionist vehicles traveling on the road below. Later that same year, a group of immigrants from Eastern Europe established a kibbutz on the site, on the lands of the depopulated village of Saris, located in the Jerusalem district, and initially adopted the name of the Arab village. Four years later, the kibbutz became a settlement moshav. Today, Shoresh operates a hotel, conference center, and banquet hall. In July 1995, a fire destroyed the moshav’s poultry industry and orchards, damaged the hotel, and left more than half of the moshav’s members homeless. As of 2021, the colony had 1,176 settlers. Source: Colony website