Giv'ot Zaid ( he, גבעות זייד, lit. Hills of ''

Zaid Zaid (also transliterated as Zayd, ar, زيد) is an Arabic given name and surname. Zaid *Zaid Abbas Jordanian basketball player * Zaid Abdul-Aziz (born 1946), American basketball player * Zaid Al-Harb (1887–1972), Kuwaiti poet *Zaid al-Rifa ...

'') was 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.

History

The kibbutz was established in 1943,Abraham Turai (1947) ''The Emek Jezreel and the Beisan Valley'', p80 to the north of the former home of

Alexander Zaïd Alexander Zaïd (1886 − 10 July 1938) was one of the founders of the Jewish defense organizations Bar Giora and Hashomer, and a prominent figure of the Second Aliyah. Biography Zaïd was born in 1886 in Zima, a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia. ...

(from whom it took its name), who was murdered in 1938.The Jerusalem Post Literary Quarterly
, Fall 2003 The founders were made up of members of the ''Yerushalayimi'' gar'in organised by Yohanan Zaïd, graduates of Mikveh Israel organised by Yiftah Zaïd, and immigrants from Poland and Romania. By 1947 it had 135 members, with 2,300 dunams being cultivated. In 1950 the kibbutz was dissolved due to disagreements between the residents. In 1951, some of them established the village of

Beit Zaid Beit Zaid ( he, בֵּית זַיִיד, , House of Zaid) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Kiryat Tiv'on, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The area was first sett ...

on the site of Zaïd's residence. In 1960 a centre for adults with special needs,

Kfar Tikvah Kfar Tikvah ( he, כפר תקוה, in English means: Village of Hope) is an Israeli institution near Kiryat Tiv'on, where the disabled live together in the style of a kibbutz. History Kfar Tikvah was founded in 1963 under the leadership of Sigf ...

was founded on the site of Givat Zaid.

References

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