Amants de Sion
Tirat Zvi means Zvi's Fort. It was named after Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (1795-1874), one of the fathers of the Zionist Movement and a leader of Hovevei Zion, while the "tira" or "fort" refers to a two-story mud-brick structure purchased from the Arab landowner, Musa al-Alami.