It’s bad enough that pioneering families at Har Tuv lost their village in the 1948 war. It’s even worse how the authorities are treating their descendants.
For years, descendants of the founders of Har Tuv near Beit Shemesh have felt betrayed by the Israeli establishment. Their agricultural community, founded in 1895 by Zionist pioneers from Bulgaria, became the only Jewish community in the new state that was not re-established after it was destroyed in the 1948 War of Independence.

A photo of residents of Har Tuv before the War of Independence. - Photo by: Emil Salman
The local regional council did not use the name Har Tuv (Mountain of Goodness ); it was reserved for a nearby industrial zone.











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