Mevo'ot Yam ( he, מְבוֹאוֹת יָם, ''lit.'' Sea Gate) 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 ...

on the coast of

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 on the coast of the

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adjacent to

Mikhmoret Mikhmoret ( he, מִכְמֹרֶת, מכמורת, ''lit.'' Fishing net) is a moshav in central Israel. Located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea around nine kilometres north of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Hefer Valley Regional Council The Hefer Valley Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית עמק חפר, ''Mo'atza Azorit Emek Hefer'') is a regional council in the Hefer Valley region of the Sharon plain in central Israel. It is named after an administrative district in ...

. In it had a student population of .

Mikhmoret Light Mikhmoret Light ( he, מגדלור מכמורת), or Mevo'ot Yam Light ( he, מגדלור מבואות ים), is a lighthouse in Mikhmoret, Israel. It is located in the Mevo'ot Yam nautical school, on the north side of the harbor of Mikhmoret. S ...

is located on a building inside the village.

History

The village was established in 1951 and named after the biblical term for "gateways of the sea" (Ezekiel 27:3) By 1962 it had a population of 400. In 1999, the Nature and Parks Authority founded the

Israeli Sea Turtle Rescue Center Israeli may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the State of Israel * Israelis, citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel * Modern Hebrew, a language * ''Israeli'' (newspaper), published from 2006 to 2008 * Guni Israeli (b ...

in Mevo'ot Yam.

Education

The fishing and trawling school here, Sharon Naval School, founded by the

Alliance Israelite Universelle An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called ...

and Israeli government, offers a variety of specialized tracks with an emphasis on nautical studies. Students can study seamanship, electricity, biology and marine agriculture, diving, and a combined course in mechanics, electronics and computers.

References

{{Hefer Valley Regional Council Youth villages in Israel Populated places established in 1951 Populated coastal places in Israel Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1951 establishments in Israel