In the early 1870s , the Spanish consul in Jerusalem bought over 5,000 dunams of land from the villagers of Artuf , which he sold to the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews . After the pogroms against the Jews in Eastern Europe in 1882 , the society used some of the money raised to help the Jewish refugees to purchase land in Artuf . Towards the end of 1883 , 24 Jewish families were settled there , each receiving 150 dunams of farmland , farm animals and tools . Due to economic difficulties and the lack of water , some of the land was leased to Arabs . After living for some time in tents , a wooden hut was built where all the families lived together . They were obliged to attend Sunday meetings and send their children to the missionary school , but most of the colonists remained practicing Jews . In 1895 , the Bulgarian Hibbat Zion movement bought the 5,000-dunam farm from the London Jews Society and renamed it '' Har-Tuv '' ( '' lit . '' Mountain of Good ) . Twelve Jewish families settled there and tried to earn a living from agriculture . Due to the poor quality of the soil , and lack of water , seeds and work implements , life in Hartuv was a struggle . In 1900 , one of the settlers inaugurated a carriage service to Jerusalem . In his 1912-13 literary almanac , '' Luah le'eretz yisrael , '' historian Abraham Moses Luncz wrote : " Artuf ( Har-Tuv ) , founded in 1895 , about 10 minutes from D'ieban along the route of the Jerusalem-Yafo railroad , 101 inhabitants , Sephardi Jews of Bulgarian origin . " During the 1929 riots Hartuv was destroyed by Arabs . The residents fled to Jaffa . Invoking the Collective Punishments Ordinance , the British Mandatory authorities heavily fined the Arab villages whose residents attacked the Jews of Hartuv
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