Ghost Towns
Hartuv
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💥 War & expulsion

Hartuv

Vanished settlement · Israel

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
1883
Population
—
Coordinates
31.765, 35.000
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: В результате арабских волнений 1929 года поселение было временно оставлено, сожжено и разграблено; позже часть жителей вернулась в Хартув и занялась восстановлением хозяйства, но в 1948 году в ходе Арабо-израильской войны поселение было эвакуировано вторично.

History

Hartuv, Arabic: ارتون) or Har-Tuv was an agricultural colony in the Judean Hills established in 1882 on land purchased from the Arab village of Artuf by English missionaries. It was destroyed in the 1929 Palestine riots but was rebuilt in 1930. In 1948 it was abandoned again. Hartuv was the starting point for the Convoy of 35 during the 1948 war. Hartuv is now an industrial zone near Beit Shemesh.

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