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{{Infobox Kibbutz
| name = Zrahia
| hebname = זרחיה
| foundation = 1950
| founded_by = [[Iran]]ian and [[Maghreb]]i immigrants
| district = south
| council = [[Shafir Regional Council|Shafir]]
| affiliation = [[Hapoel HaMizrachi]]
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population = {{Israel populations|Zerahya}}
| population_footnotes={{Israel populations|reference}}
| pushpin_map=Israel ashkelon
| pushpin_mapsize= 250
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| coordinates = {{coord|31|40|55|N|34|44|43|E|display=inline,title}}
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'''Zrahia''' ({{langx|he|זְרַחְיָה}}) is a religious [[moshav]] in southern [[Israel]].<ref>[http://www.homee.co.il/%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%97%D7%99%D7%94/ About Zrahia] Homee {{in lang|he}}</ref> Located near [[Kiryat Malakhi]], it falls under the jurisdiction of [[Shafir Regional Council]]. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Zerahya}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
==History==
The village was established in 1950 on land that had belonged to the depopulated [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] village of [[al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya]].<ref>{{Citation|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first1=Walid|last1=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=[[Washington D.C.]]|publisher=[[Institute for Palestine Studies]]|ISBN=0-88728-224-5|page=135}}</ref> Most of the founders were [[Persian Jews|immigrants]] from [[Iran]], although there were also [[Jewish exodus from Arab lands|some]] from the [[Maghreb]], particularly Morocco. It was named after Zrahia, an ancestor of [[Ezra]] (Ezra 7:4), who came to the [[Land of Israel]] after the [[Babylonian captivity]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|author=Vilnai, Ze'ev|author-link=Zev Vilnay|title=Zarahiya|encyclopedia=Ariel Encyclopedia|volume=2|pages=2106|publisher=[[Am Oved]]|location=[[Tel Aviv]], Israel|year=1974|language=he}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Moshavim]]
[[Category:Religious Israeli communities]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1950]]
[[Category:Populated places in Southern District (Israel)]]
[[Category:1950 establishments in Israel]]
[[Category:Iranian-Jewish culture in Israel]]
[[Category:Moroccan-Jewish culture in Israel]]