Evron ( he, עֶבְרוֹן) is a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

in northern

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 ...

. Situated in the western

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adjacent to

Nahariya Nahariya ( he, נַהֲרִיָּה, ar, نهاريا) is the northernmost coastal city in Israel. In it had a population of . Etymology Nahariya takes its name from the stream of Ga'aton (river is ''nahar'' in Hebrew), which bisects it. Hist ...

on the city's southeast border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

Flint tools and animal bones were found at a nearby quarry dating to a million years ago. A 2022 report concluded that they show that the hominins at the site used fire. Evron was established in 1945 and was named after the biblical Evron (עברון Joshua 19:28), which in some manuscripts appears as Avdon (עבדון), a village nearby in Asher tribe (Joshua 19:28) and Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem: Carta, p.156, (English) The founders were immigrants from

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and

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who had formed the kibbutz in 1937. In the 1940s it served as a

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base and a hiding place for illegal immigrants of

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. The founders were later joined by more immigrants from

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. Remnants of a church from the 5th century were discovered on the kibbutz land, and it has an archaeological collection with findings from the area. In the eastern part of the kibbutz is a part of an aqueduct which conducted water from the Cabri springs to

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Economy

Evron owns 75% of

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, a world leader in designing &

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for irrigation, construction, water management and firefighting.

Notable people

Haika Grossman Haika Grossman ( he, חייקה גרוסמן, 20 November 1919 – 26 May 1996) was an Israeli politician and member of Knesset. In her youth, she was a Zionist leader in Europe, a partisan, and a participant in the ghetto uprisings in occupied ...

References

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