Beit Yosef, Israel

Bejit Joseph (Hebrew בֵּית יוֹסֵף ) is a moshav in Beit Shean, Emeq ha - Ma'ajanot. The town was founded in 1937 as tower and stockade settlement during the Arab revolt (1936-1939 ). In 1947 there were over 200 people there. During the Palestine War 1948, he was abandoned, but founded in 1951 by Kurdish and Iraqi Jews again. It was named after Joseph Aharonowitsch, an important figure of the Avodah, named.