On this day in 1967 (some sources say September 27), Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, situated in Gush Etzion between Jerusalem and Hebron, was established for the fourth time after being evacuated by Israel during the War of Independence in 1948. The first time was in 1927 when a group of Orthodox Jews from Mea She’arim set up an agricultural settlement there called Migdal Eder. It was destroyed two years later...
This day in Jewish history / Reestablishing a kibbutz
After first being established in the 1920s, again in the '30s, and again in the '40s, Kibbutz Kfar Etzion was reestablished a third time on September 25, 1967 after the Six-Day War.
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