Givat Haim ( he, גִּבְעַת חַיִּים, , Haim Hill) was a kibbutz located around five kilometres south of

Hadera Hadera ( he, חֲדֵרָה ) is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel, in the northern Sharon region, approximately 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along 7 km (5&nbs ...

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. It split along ideological lines in 1952, creating two new kibbutzim,

Givat Haim (Meuhad) Givat Haim (Meuhad) (, lit. ''Haim Hill (United)'') is a kibbutz near Hadera in Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History It was formed in 1952 by an ideological split in kibbut ...

and

Givat Haim (Ihud) Givat Haim (Ihud) (, lit. ''the hill of life haim's Hill(Union)'') is a kibbutz near Hadera in Israel. It is located within the jurisdiction of the Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History It was formed in 1952 by ...

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History

Founded in 1932 by

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, it was originally called Kibbutz Gimel, but was later renamed in honour of

Haim Arlosoroff Haim Arlosoroff (February 23, 1899 – June 16, 1933; also known as Chaim Arlozorov; he, חיים ארלוזורוב) was a Socialist Zionist leader of the Yishuv during the British Mandate for Palestine, prior to the establishment of Isra ...

, who was assassinated in 1933. Like

Ein Harod Ein Harod ( he, עֵין חֲרוֹד) was a kibbutz in northern Israel near Mount Gilboa. Founded in 1921, it became the center of Mandatory Palestine's kibbutz movement, hosting the headquarters of the largest kibbutz organisation, HaKibbutz H ...

, the kibbutz split in 1952 in the wake of ideological differences between supporters of the two main socialist parties,

Mapai Mapai ( he, מַפָּא"י, an acronym for , ''Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael'', lit. "Workers' Party of the Land of Israel") was a democratic socialist political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger in ...

and

Mapam Mapam ( he, מַפָּ״ם, an acronym for , ) was a left-wing political party in Israel. The party is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party. History Mapam was formed by a January 1948 merger of the kibbutz-based Hashomer Hatz ...

. This created two new and separate kibbutzim:

, affiliated with

and belonging to

Ihud HaKvutzot veHaKibbutzim The Kibbutz Movement ( he, התנועה הקיבוצית, ''HaTnu'a HaKibbutzit'') is the largest settlement movement for kibbutzim in Israel. It was formed in 1999 by a partial merger of the United Kibbutz Movement and Kibbutz Artzi and is made ...

and

, affiliated with

and belonging to HaKibbutz HaMeuhad

Gallery

File:גבעת חיים בעמק חפר - מראה בניין בית הילדים-JNF006944.jpeg, Givat Haim 1936 File:עמק חפר - גבעת חיים בעמק חפר-JNF036105.jpeg, Givat Haim 1939 File:גבעת חיים - מראה כללי-JNF027215.jpeg, Givat Haim 1947 File:Givat Haim 1948.jpg, Members of the Maccabi Youth Movement training at Givat Haim in 1948

Notable residents

Yitzhak Ben-Aharon Yitzhak Ben-Aharon ( he, יצחק בן אהרון;17 July 1906 – 19 May 2006) was an Israeli left-wing politician. He was a Knesset member from the first to the fifth Knessets and in the seventh and eighth, and a former Minister of Transpo ...

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and member of the Knesset for

References

{{Authority control Former kibbutzim Hefer Valley Regional Council Populated places established in 1932 1952 disestablishments Geography of Central District (Israel)