๐ฎ๐ฑ Shavei Tzion (ืฉึธืืึตื ืฆึดืึผืึนื, lit. Returnees to Zion) is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located between Acre and Nahariya and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council.
History The village was established on 13 April 1938 as part of the tower and stockade settlement scheme. Its founders, immigrants from Rexingen in Germany, arrived during the Fifth Aliyah fleeing from Nazi persecution. The village's construction was financed by Arthur Loewengart, a former resident of Rexingen and wealthy leather manufacturer who immigrated to the United States in 1937. Shavei Tzion is considered one of the most beautiful towns in the Galilee due to its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea.
Seven of the Acre Prison break fighters who were killed during the operation are buried in the local cemetery.
A memorial was erected on the beach in 1999, commemorating the death of 12 IDF naval commandos who fell during an ill-fated mission into Lebanon on 5 September 1997. It is composed of a dozen sandstone slabs leaning on each another, and a separate block carrying the names of the casualties โ including a young officer from Shavei Tzion. The wreck of an old ship of the Israeli Navy, Kidon, which had been sunk just offshore as a tourist attraction for scuba divers, has also become a memorial site in recent years after a 2016 remembrance day ceremony organized by a local dive club, at which a memorial of Israeli flags and 12 chairs representing each of the 12 soldiers who died during the operation was set up on the wreck.
Archaeology In 1955, remains of a Byzantine church were found along the beach path that leads from Acre to Tyre and was dated to the 4th century. The excavations were led by Moshe Prausnitz and the findings included Mosaic floors and walls as well as remains of an Artesian aquifer.
๐บ๐ธ Summerville 32.976
๐บ๐ธ Carrollton 32.961
๐บ๐ธ Richardson 32.955
๐ฎ๐ฑ Kiryat Motzkin 35.079
๐ฎ๐ฑ Kiryat Ata 35.1
๐บ๐ฆ Zaporizhzhya 35.117
๐ฎ๐ฑ Umm al-Fahm 35.15
๐บ๐ฆ Dnipropetrovsk 35.046
๐ฎ๐ฑ Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut 35.02
๐ฎ๐ฑ Modiโin Makkabbim Reโut 35
๐ฎ๐ฑ Beit Shemesh 34.991
๐ฎ๐ฑ Bet Shemesh 34.983
Locations Near: Shavei Tzion 35.0667,32.9667
๐ฎ๐ฑ Nahariyya 35.083,33 d: 4
๐ฎ๐ฑ Acre 35.095,32.925 d: 5.3
๐ฎ๐ฑ Nahariya 35.108,33.02 d: 7.1
๐ฎ๐ฑ Kiryat Motzkin 35.079,32.83 d: 15.2
๐ฎ๐ฑ Haifa 34.989,32.816 d: 18.3
๐ฎ๐ฑ Kiryat Ata 35.1,32.8 d: 18.8
๐ฎ๐ฑ Karmiel 35.311,32.923 d: 23.3
๐ฑ๐ง Tyre 35.196,33.271 d: 35.9
๐ฎ๐ฑ Nazareth 35.298,32.702 d: 36.6
๐ฎ๐ฑ Nof HaGalil 35.334,32.709 d: 38
Antipodal to: Shavei Tzion -144.933,-32.967
๐ต๐ซ Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 18237.9
๐ฆ๐ธ Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16684.4
๐น๐ด Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16755.9
๐ผ๐ธ Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16566.9
๐บ๐ธ Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 14057.5
๐บ๐ธ Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 13921.4
๐บ๐ธ Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 13902.4
๐บ๐ธ Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 13901.7