Hamadia ( he, חֲמַדְיָה) 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 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

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of Ottoman Empire,

Abdul Hamid II Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid II ( ota, عبد الحميد ثانی, Abd ül-Hamid-i Sani; tr, II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 10 February 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 31 August 1876 to 27 April 1909, and the last sultan to ...

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.Garfinkel, Y., The Yarmukian Culture in Israel, Paléorient, Volume 19, 19-1, pp. 115-134, 1993
/ref> Hamadiya is a single-layer archaeological site of about , first reported and excavated by Nehemia Zori in 1958, then again by Jacob Kaplan in 1964.

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s, pits and fireplaces were found with Yarmukian pottery and an assemblage of many axes, picks, scrapers, " saw" elements and sickles. Large saw elements indicate possible earlier Neolithic occupation which was suggested to date at least to the early Chalcolithic (

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ASPRO chronology, period 7). A flint sickle workshop was located close to the site with over 300 sickle blades found.

Notable people

Nadav Argaman Nadav Argaman (; born 11 August 1960) was director of Shin Bet from 8 May 2016 to 13 October 2021. He previously served as deputy head of Shin Bet, Operations Division chief, and the Shin Bet representative in the United States. He was appointed b ...

, head of Shin Bet *

Gal Nevo Gal Nevo ( he, גל נבו; born 29 June 1987) is a record-holding Israeli swimmer. Biography Gal Nevo was born in Kibbutz Hamadia in the Beit She'an Valley. When the local swimming pool closed, Nevo would practice at Gan HaShlosha National Par ...

, Olympic swimmer

References

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