Oni Square

The story

Oni Square stands in Neighborhood Vav of Beersheba, at the meeting of Mivtza Yoav, Mivtza Nachshon and Mivtza Uvda streets. At its center is an iron sculpture of the city of Oni in Georgia, in which its great synagogue stands, and it depicts the heritage of the Jewish community of the place. The sculpture is by Orit Adar Bechar and the architect is Udi Kramsky. Oni is a twin city of Beersheba: it lies in a deep valley on the banks of the Rioni river, in the historic province of Racha in northwestern Georgia, at a height of eight hundred and thirty meters above sea level and at a distance of two hundred and ten kilometers from Tbilisi. The square stands in a neighborhood in which there is a high concentration of immigrants from Georgia, and that is the reason for its place: the city from which they came stands here in iron, in the neighborhood to which they came. In Beersheba there are synagogues of the immigrants from Georgia, among them Maayan Haim on Ibn Ezra Street. The square is one of about fifty squares of Beersheba that have a name of their own and carry a sculpture, a fountain or invested landscaping, out of more than two hundred and fifty traffic circles in the city; some of them, like this one, carry the names of the twin cities.

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