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Elyashiv is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of.HistoryThe moshav was founded on a site once occupied by the Arab village Khirbet esh Sheikh Mohammed . Kh. esh Sheikh Muhammed became settled during the rule of Ibrahim Pasha, either by Egyptians or by hamulas from mountain villages. In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine found that it consisted of a few adobe huts among ruins. Ancient glazed pottery has been found there.Although Yemenite neighborhoods had been established near many agricultural settlements, it was not until 1930 that independent Yemenite settlements were approved. After a prolonged struggle by the Yemenite Workers Federation in Palestine, three moshav ovdim were established: Marmorek in 1930, Tirat Shalom in 1931, and Elyashiv on 13 November 1933. Of these, Elyashiv was the largest and the only one that survived as a moshav. The original fifty families were Yemenite Jews who had been in Palestine since the 1920s. They belonged to an organization of Yeminite Jews called "Shabazi", founded in Petach-Tikva in 1931.The land for the moshav was provided by the Jewish National Fund, which had purchased a very large tract from a Lebanese Maronite in 1929 with the help of a bribe paid to the seller's legal representative. Agricultural instructors were provided by the Jewish Agency. However, unlike with other moshavot in the Hefer Valley, no financial assistance was provided by the moshav movement. The first decades were marked by continual conflict with the Jewish Agency.