On 15 April 1948, the
Harel Brigade captured the Arab village of
Saris overlooking the highway to Jerusalem. The strategic hilltop position had been used to fire on Jewish vehicles travelling on the road below. Later that year, a group of
immigrants from
Eastern Europe founded a
kibbutz on the site, they called him 'Shoresh' after the biblical village of Soris, which was, according to the
Septuagint translation of the
Book of Joshua, located in the territory of the
Tribe of Judah. The biblical name was preserved in the name of the nearby Arab village, Saris. Four years later, it became a
moshav. Today Shoresh operates a hotel, conference center and banquet hall. In July 1995, a fire destroyed the moshav's poultry and orchard industries, damaged the hotel, and left over half the moshav members homeless. ==Notable residents==