Akhziv can be easily found on the maps of the region since the region was first mapped; and this region was mapped first of all. 3500 years ago this village was first mentioned in the charts, then Egyptian ones. This place was once a subject of (in alphabetic order) Arab, Assyrian, British, Byzantine, Crusaders', Egyptian, Hellenistic, Israelite and Israeli again, Macedonian, Mameluk, Ottoman, Persian, Phoenician, Roman states (sorry if I've missed some). Only for last several decades independence came upon this piece of land. For several decades the owner, the gouvernor and the protector of the place is one Eli Avivi, born about 1937 AC in Iran, who climbed up to Israel in the age of two.
Travelling through these lands in about 1950 AC, Eli Avivi was charmed by the beauty and wilderness of the place and have occupied the empty Moukhtar house in the center of the village left by inhabitants in 1949. For a good number of years Eli, his wife Rina, and their friends have lived here. About mid-1960ies AC Eli with Israeli Premier Minister of those days have signed a treaty according to which the State of Israel leased the Akhziv Land to Eli Avivi for 99 years.
Akhziv on the map of Abraham ben Yaakov (ca. 1695)
