Shafir () is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Shephelah near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History Shafir was founded on 15 August 1949 by immigrants from Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and was built on the land of the former Palestinian village of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya, which had been depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was named after the Biblical city of Shafir that is mentioned in the Book of Micah 1:11, which also means "good and beautiful". Today Shafir is made up of a Jewish settlers from Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Iran.

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