Ayanot ( he, עֲיָנוֹת, ''lit.'' Fountains) is a

youth village A youth village ( he, כפר נוער, ''Kfar No'ar'') is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pionee ...

in central

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. Located near

Ness Ziona Ness Ziona ( he, נֵס צִיּוֹנָה, ''Nes Tziyona'') is a town in central Israel. In it had a population of , and its jurisdiction was 15,579 dunams (). History Early history Lying within Ness Ziona's city bounds is the ruin of an Arab vi ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Gan Raveh Regional Council Gan Raveh Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית גן רווה, ''Mo'atza Ezorit Gan Raveh'') is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. The council's area of jurisdiction extends to nine settlements: a kibbutz, six moshavi ...

. In it had a population of .

Etymology

The village was named after the numerous springs in the area, though other sources claim it is taken from

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; "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills." The

Jewish National Fund Jewish National Fund ( he, קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, ''Keren Kayemet LeYisrael'', previously , ''Ha Fund HaLeumi'') was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, and subseq ...

wrote in 1949 that the name is derived from the Arabic.

History

The foundation of the village began with the purchase of of land by

Ada Maimon Ada Maimon ( he, עדה מימון, born Ada Fishman on 8 October 1893, died 10 October 1973) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1949 and 1955. Biography Born in Mărculești in Bessarabia Governora ...

as a girl's training farm in 1926. The village was established on 30 March 1930, though no-one lived on the site until Maimon, ten girls and a guard moved in on 12 January 1932; until then they had lived in nearby

. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, the village became an agricultural school and took in young

Holocaust survivors Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and Axis powers, its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no unive ...

who had succeeded in

immigrating Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

. Today it is home to a

boarding school A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now exten ...

for 180 pupils. A few years ago, the agricultural school opened a

miniature horse A miniature horse is a breed A breed is a specific group of domestic animals having homogeneous appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that distinguish it from other organisms of the same species. In liter ...

farm and one of its horses was a runner-up in the 2008 world championship for miniature horses. In 2010, the village celebrated its 80th anniversary.

Gallery

File:Beit Hanan 1941.jpg, Ayanot 1941 1:20,000 File:Yibna 1945.jpg, Ayanot1945 1:250,000 File:בית הספר החקלאי בעיינות-JNF022259.jpeg, Ayanot 1930 File:משק הפועלות בעינות בחוף יהודה-JNF003046.jpeg, Ayanot 1934 File:משק הפועלות בעינות-JNF000820.jpeg, Ayanot 1945 File:משק הפועלות בעינות-JNF000835.jpeg, Worker’s farm 1945 File:Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - YOUTH ALIYA YOUNGSTERS STUDYING.jpg, Young people studying at Ayanot, 1948

References

External links

* {{Gan Raveh Regional Council Youth villages in Israel Populated places established in 1930 Jewish villages in Mandatory Palestine Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1930 establishments in Mandatory Palestine