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Emek HaMaayanot Regional Council
Emek HaMa'ayanot Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית עמק המעיינות, ''Mo'atza Azorit Emek HaMa'ayanot'', lit. ''Valley of the Springs Regional Council'') is a regional council in the Northern District of Israel that encompasses most of the settlements in the Beit She'an Valley. Until 2008 it was known as the Beit She'an Valley Regional Council (''Mo'atza Azorit Bik'at Beit She'an''). he new incarnation of the Beit She'an Valley: "The Valley of the Springs" '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamadia
Hamadia ( he, חֲמַדְיָה) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley, just north of Beit She'an in northern Israel. It belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . Name The kibbutz took its name from al-Hamidiyya, an abandoned Arab village north of the kibbutz named for the sultan of Ottoman Empire, Abdul Hamid II. History The kibbutz was founded in 1939 as part of the Tower and stockade movement. It was re-established in 1942 by the "Hermonim" pioneers, a garin of native-born Israelis who were part of a youth group. Archaeology: Hamadiya Neolithic site The Neolithic site at Kibbutz Hamadiya, known from archaeological literature as Hamadiya, is situated on a terrace of ancient Lake Beisan, 200 metres below sea level, south of the prehistorical site of Munhata. Hamadiya is suggested to date between c. 5800 and 5400 BCE. Detailed reports have yet to be published. Hamadiya is a single-layer archaeological site of about , first report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tirat Zvi
Tirat Zvi ( he, טִירַת צְבִי, lit. ''Zvi Castle'') is a religious kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley, ten kilometers south of the city of Beit She'an, Israel, just west of the Jordan River and the Israel-Jordan border. It falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology 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.History of Kibbutz Tirat Zvi Yorav History The kibbutz was founded on 30 June 1937 as part of the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shluhot
Shluhot ( he, שִׁלוּחוֹת, ''lit.'' Branches) is an Orthodox kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located about three kilometres south of the city of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Shluhot was founded in 1948 by former members of the Bnei Akiva Zionist youth movement on the land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Ashrafiyya. Initially, a temporary joint camp was set up with a group from the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. Shortly thereafter, when each group received land to build separate kibbutzim, the secular members of the group formed the adjacent kibbutz of Reshafim. The kibbutz is one of four religious kibbutzim that are located in a cluster south of Beit She'an stretching from Shluhot at the base of Mount Gilboa through Ein HaNatziv and Sde Eliyahu until Tirat Zvi adjacent to the Jordan River. Today, the kibbutz population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sde Nahum
Sde Nahum ( he, שְׂדֵה נַחוּם, ''lit.'' Nahum Field) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located around 4 km northwest of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The kibbutz was founded on 5 January 1937 by members of the Sadeh group from the Mikveh Israel agricultural school, as well as immigrants from Austria, Germany and Poland. It was the third kibbutz established as part of the tower and stockade settlement movement. Initially called "Kibbutz HaSadeh," it was later renamed in honour of Nahum Sokolov, a Hebrew writer and Zionist leader. Ruins of a 5th–6th century Byzantine church has been found in the kibbutz. The nearby Palestinian village of Saffuriya had been almost emptied of its 4000 inhabitants in July 1948. By early January, 1949, about 500 villagers had filtered back, but "neighbouring settlements coveted Saffuriya lands". The "Northern Fron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sde Eliyahu
Sde Eliyahu ( he, שְׂדֵה אֵלִיָּהוּ, ''lit.'' Eliyahu Field) is a religious kibbutz in northern Israel. Located five kilometres south of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Sde Eliyahu was founded on 8 May 1939 by Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany as a tower and stockade settlement. It was named after the 19th-century Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher, one of the early leaders of Religious Zionism. It was part of a cluster of religious kibbutzim that includes Ein HaNatziv, Shluhot and Tirat Zvi. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Sde Eliyahu began to farm the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Arab al-'Arida. Economy The kibbutz produces dates, olives, grapes, pomegranates, spices and field crops, as well as dairy cattle and poultry. Organic farming methods and non-pesticide management are used. BioBee was established in 1983 as the Sde Eliyahu Biological Control Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reshafim
Reshafim ( he, רְשָׁפִים, ''lit.'' Sparks) is a kibbutz in northeastern Israel. Located two kilometres to the south of the town of Beit She'an in the Beit She'an Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The cooperative association was registered on October 13, 1944, as "Reshafim Kibutz Hashomer Hatzair Kvutzat Poalim Lehityashvut Shetufit Limited".Government of Palestine, The Palestine Gazette, No. 1372, p. 1096, November 9, 1944.. A first settlement was established by Hashomer Hatzair members movement in 1947 at Kiryat Haim. In 1948 land was allocated to Reshafim from village lands of the Palestinian village of al-Ashrafiyya, which was depopulated after 10–11 May during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In 1949 the members and their children moved to the permanent location near Beit She'an. For the first few months at the site, the members of kibbutz Reshafim lived temporarily in a camp jointly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir David
Nir David ( he, נִיר דָּוִד, ''lit.'' David's Meadow) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Founded on 10 December 1936 as Tel Amal, the first of the tower and stockade settlements, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Nir David was founded on the 10 December 1936, under the name of Tel Amal. It was established as the first tower and stockade settlement (and the first kibbutz) in the Beit She'an Valley. In the 1940s, the kibbutz was renamed Nir David in honor of David Wolffsohn, second president of the World Zionist Organization. The communal dining room and two children's homes were designed by Zeev Rechter, architect of some of Israel's most iconic buildings. A group of Holocaust survivors joined the kibbutz in the 1940s. Nir David uses land that traditionally belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Sakhina. In the 1990s, Nir David developed a tourism indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neve Ur
Neve Ur ( he, נְוֵה אוּר, lit. ''Oasis Ur'') is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Beit She'an Valley on the Jordan River and to the south of the Sea of Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . It is named after the Biblical town of Ur Kasdim in Mesopotamia, where Abraham lived, before he left for the land of Israel (Canaan) (). Geography Neve Ur is located in the northern Jordan Valley in the Beit She'an region approximately 10 km north of the town of Beit She'an, and 15 km south of the Sea of Galilee. Highway 90 runs through the Beit She'an Valley past Neve Ur. The kibbutz and its building lay to the east of the road. On the west side of the highway, and some 500 meters above, overlooking its hillside citrus groves, is the most complete Crusader fortress in Israel, Belvoir Fortress. The Hebrew name of the fortress is Kokhav HaYarden (lit. ''Star of the Jordan''), for the nearby ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neve Eitan
Neve Eitan ( he, נְוֵה אֵיתָן, lit. ''Strong residence'') is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located about 1 km east of Beit She'an and 1 km west of Maoz Haim, it is under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The kibbutz was established on 25 November 1938 by Polish members of the "Akiva" movement as part of the tower and stockade campaign. Native Israelis joined the settlement in 1952. The name "Neve Eitan" is based on the original Hebrew text of a verse in Jeremiah (Jeremiah, 49:19), in which God curses Edom to sudden overthrow: "It shall be as when a lion comes up out of the jungle of the Jordan (''Ge'on HaYarden'': גְּאֹ֣ון הַיַּרְדֵּן֮) against a secure pasture (''Neve Eitan'': נְוֵ֣ה אֵיתָן֒)" ( JPS1985). Neve Eitan was established on what was traditionally land belonging to the Palestinian village of Al-Ghazzawiyya. Education The ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesilot
Messilot ( he, מְסִלּוֹת, מסילות, ''lit.'' Tracks) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Beit She'an Valley near the city of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The community was initially formed as an urban kibbutz in Givat Michael near Ness Ziona by immigrants from Polish Republic (who were members of the "BaMesilah" group from which the kibbutz takes its name) and Bulgaria (members of the "Bulgaria - Tel Hai group"), with both groups belonging to the Hashomer Hatzair movement. The kibbutz itself was established on 22 December 1938 as a tower and stockade settlement. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the kibbutz was bombed by an Iraqi aeroplane. One member of the kibbutz was killed in the bombing, and some other members were injured. On 16 April 1957 two guards of the kibbutz were killed by Palestinian terrorists who came from the West Bank, then part of Jord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meirav
Meirav ( he, מֵירַב) is a religious kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the downward slopes of Mount Gilboa around ten kilometres southwest of Beit She'an and less than 500 metres from the Green Line, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology Some people connect the name "Meirav" to the story of Saul's death in the Battle of Gilboa against the Philistines, which is believed to have occurred nearby, because Saul's oldest daughter was named Meirav (1 Samuel 14:50). However, the name can also be interpreted as meaning "a lot of water" and " the most of". History The kibbutz was founded initially as a Nahal settlement on Mount Malkishua in 1982, and is the newest religious kibbutz in the country. In 1987, it moved to its current location on Mount Avinadav. Meirav is located just south of another religious kibbutz, Ma'ale Gilboa. As they are both religious kibbutzim, it was decided that although they are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
